![]() The desire to move people and materials from place to place spawned the earliest forms of mechanised equipment. ![]() I’ll be tracing the progress they made up until the point when petrol, diesel and electrically-driven excavators took over the industry.Īlthough development of mechanised earthmoving equipment is largely a 20th century phenomenon, the need to move large quantities of material originated with the Industrial Revolution, and the advent of the steam age in the 18th century. However, the focus of this article will be the pioneering American and UK manufacturers who built the first giant steam shovels. Steam shovels and often referred to as ‘navvies’ in the UK – a name derived from the pick-and-shovel-wielding labourers who toiled in 19th century railway construction. It was built in 1835, and patented in 1839. Giant steam shovels: This machine, created by William S Otis, is documented as the first steam shovel ever designed to work on land.
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