History
Further information: History of construction and History of steam road vehicles-
JCB 3CX backhoe loader
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A wheeled bulldozer in an open pit coal mine
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A portable engine; a precursor to modern engineering vehicles
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An early gasoline-powered tractor
The use of heavy equipment has a long history; the ancient Roman engineer Vitruvius (1st century BCE) gave descriptions of heavy equipment and cranes in ancient Rome in his treatise De architectura. The pile driver was invented around 1500. The first tunnelling shield was patented by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1818.
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