Buy this book on-line SHERYN, HINTON J: : AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF EXCAVATORSUK.SHEPPERTON,SURREY.IAN ALLAN PUBLISHING,1995. ISBN 0711023530.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - generally believed to be an export copy,which usually precedes the UK trade edn issues/ distribution.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with b/w lettering, colour+b/w montage'd photographic rear panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB +dw/dj,1st edn,4-128pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,contents list/ table with picture credits,an introduction,3 sections covering Single-Bucket Cable type excavators,Hydraulic excavators and Continuous Excavators comprising 7,1 and 4 chapters respectively,profuse contemporary b/w photographs throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] half-title page and a double-page b/w photographic title page.
Ever since man first discovered that the earth's mineral resources could be exploited for fuel or raw materials there has been an impetus towards finding ever more efficient means of extracting these resources.Until the Industrial Revolution extraction was relatively small scale,but the massive growth of industry in the 19th and 20th centuries,allied with the development of the huge resources in North America and Australia,has seen the production of massive excavators that can strip huge quantities of ore,thereby altering the whole terrain of the landscape.
In 'An Illustrated History of Excavators' Hinton J. Sheryn provides a fascinating account of the development of these great machines from their 19th century origins through to the enormous shovels and drag lines of the 1990s.Combined with a superb selection of historic photographs,the book is an excellent portrait of an often-ignored,but still essential,part of the technology developed to sustain the global economy.
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