FUNNY NAMES
Some machines resemble animals in the way they look or the things they do, and so they have animal names. Besides the caterpillar with its crawler treads and the crane with its long neck, here are some others:
ALLIGATOR GRAB—a tool used to pick up things that get dropped into oil well holes.
CAMEL-BACK CRANE—this one has a hump in its boom.
FISHTAIL BIT—a drilling tool which is shaped like a fish’s tail.
KANGAROO PLOW—a plow equipped with strong springs so it can hop over rocks or tree stumps, instead of getting caught on them.
SHEEP’S FOOT TAMPER—a heavy road roller with spikes that pack earth down, the way a flock of sheep does.
WORM LOADER—a long screw that twists round and round to push its load along.
INDEX
[a], [b], [c], [d], [e], [f], [g], [h], [j], [l], [m], [n], [o], [p], [r], [s], [t], [v], [w].
airplane duster, [26]
asphalt spreader, [65]
bailer, [34]
baler, automatic, [26-27]
beet digger, [42]
bit, [69]
blower, [28]
boom, [9], [49], [51], [55], [74], [85]
“box seat,” [22]
bucker, [53]
bulldozer, [45], [55], [57], [61], [67], [74], [77]
bull wheel, [73], [74]
cable rig, [72]
catcher, [53]
caterpillar, [45], [46], [60], [67], [68], [74], [77], [85]
cats, [68]
cement mixer, [65]
chicken picker, [24-25]
Chinese drillers, [73-74]
chisel plow, [32]
clamshell, [49], [84]
coal digger, [81]
coal loaders, [81]
coal mining, [9], [78-83]
corn cutter, [25]
corn picking machine, [21]
corn planter, [19]
cotton picker, [37-38]
cotton planter, [37]
crane, [10], [49-52], [54], [85]
crawler tractor, [45]
crawlers, [10], [48], [49]
crowd shovel, [49]
“cub” tractor, [44]
cultivator, [21]
cutter heads, [15]
cutting head, [81]
cyclone, [39]
derrick, [69]
Diesel engine, [47]
dipper, [49]
“dogging,” [52]
dredges, [14-15]
driller, [72]
driverless plow, [32-35]
earth mover, [58]
egg machinery, [24]
egg sorter, [24]
electro-magnet, [84]
escalators, [83-84]
farm machines, [18-45]
giraffe, [83]
go-devil, [77-78]
gooseneck trailer, [48]
grader, [61-64]
grass planter, [26]
harrow, [18]
hay baler, [26-27]
hay blower, [67]
hay rake, [27]
hay stacker, [28-29]
heater, [53]
hoe, compressed air, [36], [37]
“hot-dope gang,” [74]
house, [49]
house moving, [58]
jackhammers, [12]
jib, [52]
joint, [70]
lumbering machinery, [85-86]
magnet crane, [84]
“making hole,” [72]
manure scoop, [24]
mechanical mouse, [89]
milking machine, [29-32]
mining, machinery [78-83]
motor grader, [61-64], [67]
motor scraper, [57]
mowing machine, [26]
Muskeg schooner, [69]
nut harvester, [41]
oil wells, [69-74]
ore unloaders, [84]
overhead crane, [10]
“package job,” [22]
piggy-back crane, [10]
pile driver, [13]
pipelines, [74-78]
plow, [17], [18], [32], [33], [34], [35]
post-hole digger, [16]
potato digger, [42]
powder monkey, [60]
power shovel, [47-48]
pull-shovel, [49]
pumps, [78-80]
reaper, [22], [42]
rig, [70]
ripper, [61]
rivet gun, [53]
rivet man, [53]
road building machines, [55-68]
rock crusher, [12]
rock rake, [60]
rotary rig, [72]
rotolactor, [30-32]
roughnecks, [72]
scraper, [61]
seed planter, [67]
shovel, [9], [47-48], [49]
signals, [52], [84], [88]
silage blower, [26]
skull cracker, [54]
snow plow, [45], [67]
spraying machines, [38-39]
spud, [15]
squeezer, [89]
steam engines, [80]
steam roller, [66]
steam shovel, [47-48]
suction dredge, [57]
tandem roller, [65]
tassel picker, [40-41]
television, [88], [89]
“thinking machines,” [89]
tomato planter, [22]
tongs, [70]
tractor, [17], [18], [44], [45], [58], [61]
trailer houses, [69]
tree-dozer, [17]
tree-shaker, [41]
trencher, [74-77]
turntable, [51]
turtle, [89]
two-gang plow, [18]
vacuum unloaders, [84]
welding crew, [74]
well drilling, [69-74]
wheat planting machine, [22]
windrower, [27]
wrecker, [54]
The author and the artist wish to thank the following for their help in making this book possible: Miss Elsie Eaves, Manager, Business News Department, Engineering News-Record; Margaret Gossett; Mr. Harold Spitzer; The Lamp, published by the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); the Caterpillar Corp.; the General Motors Corp., the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co.; the Florida Land Clearing Equipment Co.; the Walker-Gordon Laboratory Co.; the many manufacturers of digging, road-building and other specialized machines; a bumper crop of tractor and farm implement makers; and farmer friends who proudly showed their equipment in action.
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MACHINES
AT WORK
By Mary Elting
Illustrated by Laszlo Roth
There are machines to dig, to hammer, to push—to do every kind of heavy job and to make work thousands of times easier and faster.
On farms, in the mines, in cities where huge buildings are built and out in the woods where powerdriven saws slice through great trees, many kinds of special machines do many kinds of remarkable jobs.
Can you imagine a giant shovel so huge that it took 45 freight cars to haul it from factory to mine? Do you know that there is a machine that plucks the feathers off chickens, ones that pick corn, dig potatoes? Inventors of machines work on everything—they even had fun making a mechanical mouse that can sniff about until it finds a piece of “cheese” and then “remember” and run straight to it next time!
As marvelous and complicated as all these machines are, the author points out that no inventions will ever be as wonderful as the men who invented them—and the men who make them work.
You will find this book an exciting companion to TRAINS AT WORK, SHIPS AT WORK, TRUCKS AT WORK.
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TRUCKS AT
WORK
By Mary Elting
Illustrated by Ursula Koering
This is a book about the sort of trucks that you see every day, as well as the most wonderful out-of-the-way trucks that you may not yet have discovered. It tells of city trucks, with their endless and fascinating cargoes, trucks that help on the farm, and trucks that rumble along the country roads hauling anything from horse-stables to houses.
The author also tells you how the drivers arrange their routes, and how they learned to foil hijackers—and the pictures will tell you just as much as the text. You can see how a truck is loaded so that nothing gets smashed or spoilt; and how a truck Roadeo tests the skill of the men who drive the huge trailer rigs. There is lots of fun here besides useful information.
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