Yellow Steel
The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry
by William R. Haycraft
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"Extensively illustrated and packed with detailed information on both manufacturers and machines, Yellow Steel knits together the diverse stories of the many companies that created the earthmoving equipment industry - how they began, expanded, retooled, merged, succeeded, and sometimes failed. Their history, a step-by-step linking of need and invention, provides the foundation for virtually all modern transportation, construction, commerce, and industry."--BOOK JACKET.
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Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry
August 7, 2002, University of Illinois Press
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0252071042 9780252071041
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Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry
December 10, 2000, University of Illinois Press
Hardcover
in English
0252024974 9780252024979
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"From the dawn of civilization, human beings have constructed civil works; indeed, until the advent of open-pit mining in the late nineteenth century, these works accounted for almost all of the earthmoving that took place."
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