Where Earth Dissolves Like Snow: The Keystone Driller Story

Wayne A. Cole

Verlag: Wayne A. Cole, 2007

Beschreibung

Scarce, near fine softback copyright 2007; first edition; "In 1880 Robert Magee Downie from Butler County, Pennsylvania, patented a well drilling machine. Within years the patent would change the way mankind viewed water. Thirty years later the Keystone Driller Company helped make Beaver County the leading industrialized county in the nation. The history ironically twists in 1912 from well drilling to the forerunner of America's first backhoe. This is the history, the rise and fall, the tragedies and shock of percussion from 1878 to 1959 and the Cold War, from Butler County to Beaver Falls, from Belgium to Vietnam"; contains copious text and dozens of rare, never-in-print b&w photos of equipment manufactured by this once mighty manufacturer based in Beaver Falls Pa; 96 spotless, glossy pages B-35. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1601574977944

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Where Earth Dissolves Like Snow: The ...

Verlag: Wayne A. Cole

Erscheinungsdatum: 2007

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition