Yellow Steel
Subtitle: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: August 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780252071041
Subjects: Mechanical Engineering & Materials; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; General; Business & Economics / Corporate History; Corporate & Business History - General; Development - Business Development; Industries - General
First sentence: 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.