This volume features the greatest mobile mechanical vehicles operating at source around the world, including tracked bulldozers, rope excavators, draglines, wheeled loads and cranes. Carrol traces the development of heavy equipment and how computer aided design (CAD) has played a significant role in the advancement of these machines. Each chapter takes an example, and goes under the surface to reveal in cutaway illustrations what goes into the machines, and photographs of the machines in action put into context what the equipment can achieve. Their history is given together with information about leading manufacturers and their key products.
- ISBN10 0785806075
- ISBN13 9780785806073
- Publish Date 1 October 1997
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Chartwell Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English