earth moving scraper
1scraper — /skray peuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that scrapes. 2. any of various tools or utensils for scraping. [1545 55; SCRAPE + ER1] * * * ▪ construction in engineering, machine for moving earth over short distances (up to about two miles) over… …
2James Porteous — (1848 1922) was the Scottish American inventor of the Fresno Scraper.James Porteous was born in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. His father, William Porteous, had been a wheelwright and blacksmith who built and repaired carriages, wagons and… …
3Euclid Trucks — The Euclid Company of Ohio was a company specialized in heavy equipment for earthmoving, namely dump trucks and wheel tractor scrapers, that operated from the United States of America from the 1920s to the 1950s, then it was purchased and… …
4Heavy equipment (construction) — Heavy machinery redirects here. For the album by Anders Johansson, Jens Johansson and Allan Holdsworth, see Heavy Machinery (album). Heavy equipment vehicles of various types parking near a highway construction site …
5Bulldozer — For other uses, see Bulldozer (disambiguation). A Caterpillar D10N bulldozer equipped with a single shank ripper. A bulldozer is a crawler (continuous tracked tractor) equipped with a substantial metal plate (known as a blade) used to push large… …
6Abijah McCall — was a co inventor of the Fresno Scraper, a horse drawn (and later, tractor drawn) earth moving machine upon which modern road and canal building equipment is based. Along with his partner Frank Dusy, McCall devised an improvement on the Buck… …
7William Deidrick — William Deidrick, of Selma, California was a co inventor of the Fresno Scraper, the machine that became the basis of most modern earth moving equipment. On April 17 1883, Deidrick received U.S. Patent 275,893 for his horse drawn scraper, which… …
8Earthworks (engineering) — Earthworks are engineering works created through the moving of massive quantities of soil or unformed rock. Engineers need to concern themselves with issues of geotechnical engineering (such as soil fluidity and friction) and with quantity… …
9Frank Dusy — (December 17, 1837–November 9, 1898) was an early business leader of Selma, California and a co inventor of the Fresno Scraper, the basis of most modern earth moving machinery. On June, 16, 1885, Dusy and his partner Abijah McCall were issued U.S …
10M9 Armored Combat Earthmover — Infobox Weapon name=M9 ACE (Armored Combat Earthmover) caption=Two M9 ACEs staged ready to go out on a mission in Iraq. origin=USA type= is vehicle=yes crew=1 length= 6.2 m width= 3.2 m height= 3 m weight= 24.4 tonnes armour= mm primary armament …
