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Elliott celebrates 70 years of making truck aerial devices
As post-World War II America was building its electrical grid and interstate system, Richard Elliott of Omaha, Nebraska, introduced his truck-mounted telescoping aerial work platform and crane. Starting in 1948, he would build just one machine at a time, mounted on a conventional truck chassis. He would drive them across the United States stopping in […]
February 23, 2018
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Excavator operator strikes 400 live WWII grenades buried beneath jobsite
Though he wasn’t exactly sure of what he had struck at the time, an excavator operator in Austria likely needed a drink later on, once police informed him he’d made a potentially explosive discovery. According to a report from the Associated Press, the operator went to police after his excavator bucket struck metal on a jobsite […]
June 29, 2015
Construction Equipment
PHOTOS: In WWII, Seabees built dozer radiators and a lot more out of fuel drums to keep Navy equipment going
Given the harsh conditions of the Pacific Theater of World War II, ingenuity wasn’t so much a skill developed by the U.S. Navy on those small hellacious islands, as it was a tool carried into battle. And much of that ingenuity came thanks to a group of sailors known as the Seabees. The Navy’s Construction Battalions […]
May 25, 2015
Roadbuilding
The future of innovative transportation solutions on the Battleship New Jersey
It almost seems symbolic that a seminar on innovative solutions that are shaping the future of transportation engineering is taking place on a historic battleship since moving our nation’s infrastructure forward with a lacking of funding has been a real battle. Next week, on Sept. 10, Leica Geosystems, in conjunction with the Surveyors Association of […]
September 2, 2014
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How bulldozers and heroic operators helped demolish Hitler’s Atlantic wall in the D-Day invasion (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
[imagebrowser id=88] “Hitler’s Atlantic wall cracked in the first hour under tempestuous allied assault. As I write, deeply dug into a beachhead of northwestern France, German prisoners, mostly wounded, are streaming back. … Shells are exploding all over the beach and out at sea as wave after wave of allied ships, as far as I can […]
June 6, 2014
Construction Equipment
Excavator hits WWII bomb in Germany; explosion kills operator, injures 13 more
The operator of an excavator in Euskirchen, Germany was killed Friday by the blast of a buried World War II bomb. The operator was crushing rubble on a disposal site used by a local construction firm, according to a report from Bild.de. The bucket of the machine hit the bomb, resulting in an explosion so large […]
January 6, 2014
Business
10 things construction leaders can learn from Dwight D. Eisenhower
The trouble with most management and leadership books crowding the shelves today is that many of them were written by people who’ve never managed anything bigger than their own publishing enterprises. I prefer biographies. And one of the best biographies I’ve read in many years is Eisenhower: In War and Peace, by Jean Edward Smith. So […]
September 30, 2013
Construction Equipment
English quarry workers nearly processed this World War II rocket (PHOTO)
On Monday, Quarry workers discovered a World War II rocket at the Welcome Pit quarry in Burgh Castle, England, according to our sister site Aggregates Manager. The discovery of the rocket likely sent chills up the spines of the quarry workers who found it. The 2-foot-long rocket shell was found mixed in with material about […]
September 24, 2013
Roadbuilding
PHOTOS: 1940s wartime posters urge rail passengers to “stay put”
At a time when the idea of supertrains and other types of speedy transit is popular, it’s hard to believe commuters would have ever been asked not to ride a train. Well, according to some 1940s posters Retronaut has gathered, Britain’s Railway Executive Committee urged citizens to “stay put” and avoid “taking unnecessary journeys.” The wartime […]
July 19, 2013
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Beautiful color photos from 1942 capture American spirit during World War II
It’s the Fourth of July, a day to relax, throw some burgers and dogs on the grill, shoot fireworks and celebrate with family and friends the freedom this great country of ours affords us. Freedom earned through the sacrifice of others during some dark times. With that in mind, we thought this collection of Kodachrome […]
July 4, 2013
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Amazing footage from the 1946 Indy 500
Here’s a pretty great way to get the Memorial Day weekend started: how about amazing vintage footage from one of the holiday’s most time-honored traditions? YouTube user and blogger RetroChromeX posted this recently-found footage of the 1946 Indianapolis 500, noting that, because of the outbreak of World War II, this was the first time the […]
May 24, 2013
Construction Equipment
JCB aids excavation of British WWII Spitfire planes
A team of 21 people is headed to Myanmar, also known as Burma, to dig and see if they can find 36 unassembled Spitfire warplanes. British equipment maker JCB is supplying two excavators and a backhoe to aid in the treasure hunt and is also sending along Oliver Keates, a JCB equipment demonstrator and the […]
January 14, 2013
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