Máquinas para la construcción vial: libros - historia

Classic American Steamrollers 1871-1935 Photo Archive

Fotos emocionantes de las grandes máquinas a vapor que dieron forma a las carreteras de Estados Unidos y otros espacios pavimentados. Por primera vez, lea sobre las 30 marcas reconocidas de apisonadoras construidas en América del Norte. Los aficionados a los motores agrícolas Baker, Birdsall, Buffalo-Pitts, Case, Enright, Geiser, Gorton, Heilman, Huber, Kelly, Leader, Port Huron, Robert Bell, Russell y Waterous los encontrarán entre las apisonadoras mostradas.

Vea el desarrollo de las apisonadoras en América del Norte desde la primera apisonadora de 3 ruedas de Abbot Q Ross de 1871 hasta la última apisonadora a vapor Buffalo-Springfield de 1935. Quedará fascinado por la profundidad de la información.

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Autor:	Judge Raymond L. Drake, Dr. Robert T. Rhode
Presentación:	128 páginas, 21.5 x 26 x 0.9 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	166 fotos en b/n
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Iconografix (USA, 2001)
ISBN:	9781583880388

Road Rollers

In the nineteenth century, it became obvious that the UK's road system needed to be improved. Smoother roads were required to allow people to travel faster and more safely, and the engineers went to work to make this possible. In this book, author Anthony Coulls looks at one of the best known ways of doing this: the road roller.

The first road rollers were horse-drawn and these were followed in 1865 by the steam-powered road roller, which was seen on British roads for more than a century. Aveling & Porter of Rochester was the firm that dominated the steam roller market, although several other manufacturers made plenty. As technology improved, rollers began to get lighter and new forms of propulsion came in - petrol and diesel engines.

Even though a road roller today will be one of these more modern types, the term 'steam roller' is a firm part of the public's imagination. The appeal of the steam roller means that hundreds survive to this day in the hands of enthusiasts, who take them to steam rallies up and down the country, and petrol and diesel rollers have great appeal too.

From the earliest steam rollers to classic diesel and petrol rollers, this book presents the history of these popular road-making machines and their accessories. This volume is part of the Britain's Heritage series, which provides definitive introductions to the riches of Britain's past, and is the perfect way to get acquainted with road rollers in all their variety.

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Autor:	Anthony Coulls
Presentación:	64 páginas, 23.5 x 16.5 x 0.5 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	180 fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Amberley Publishing (GB, 2018)
ISBN:	9781445675800

Roadbuilding Construction Equipment at Work: Building the early interstate highways through New England's Green Mountains

This photo essay details the construction of the original Interstate Highway System in Vermont's picturesque and largely rural mountainous region through the late 1950s to late '70s. During this short time, contractor driven construction equipment innovation was remarkable: 2-1/2 cubic yard shovels were replaced with 4-8 yard shovels and then by massive wheel loaders up to 17 cubic yards; 15-22 ton rock trucks were upped to 50 tons; rudimentary spreading methods - with dump trucks using tailgate chains - were replaced with CMI Autogrades; and many contractors devised and built ingenious contraptions to increase production.

The work attracted many large established road building firms from other States - Lane, Perini, Palazzi, L. G. Defelice, Green Construction from Des Moines, Iowa, as well as Cartier Construction, a division of McNamara from Montreal - seen here clearing and grubbing, pioneering, rock drilling, mucking peat bogs, and excavation sequences including trucks and shovels, loaders, pan scrapers, and a wheel excavator.
The manufacturers of construction equipment constitute a virtual directory of the period; Caterpillar, Euclid, Allis-Chalmers, International, Dart, P&H, Bucyrus-Erie, Northwest, Lorain, Lima, Gradall, Barber-Greene, Blaw Knox, CMI, and more.

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Autor:	Edgar A. Browning
Presentación:	126 páginas, 28 x 22 x 1 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	250 fotos en b/n
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Iconografix (USA, 2011)
ISBN:	9781583882771

Steam Rollers in Preservation

Los rodillos de vapor se desarrollaron por primera vez en la década de 1860. Thomas Aveling perfeccionó el diseño más común, con un gran rodillo direccional en la parte delantera y dos rodillos en la parte trasera. Su empresa, Aveling & Porter, se convirtió en el principal fabricante de rodillos de vapor, aunque otros constructores de tractores también produjeron diversos diseños, algunos bastante innovadores.
Los rodillos de vapor fueron los últimos vehículos de carretera a vapor en uso generalizado, algunos de los cuales permanecieron en servicio hasta mediados de la década de 1960. Como resultado, muchos han sido preservados y se exhiben con frecuencia en concentraciones y eventos.

Este libro muestra una variedad de rodillos de vapor de diferentes fabricantes que se pueden ver en Gran Bretaña y ofrece un relato detallado de su historia y preservación.

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Autor:	Malcolm Batten
Presentación:	96 páginas, 20 x 14 x 1 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	180 fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Amberley Publishing (GB, 2024)
ISBN:	9781398121058

Hamm - Mehr als 100 Jahre Strassenwalzen aus Tirschenreuth

Road rollers have been manufactured in Tirschenreuth in Upper Palatinate (Bavaria) for longer than anywhere else in the world. Reason enough, then, to present this interesting story in detail in words and pictures.

The author, who grew up not far from Tirschenreuth, was fascinated by all kinds of construction machinery as a teenager. However, he was particularly taken with the Hamm rollers, which are omnipresent on the construction sites in his region. He began photographing the machines early on and collecting everything that had to do with the motor rollers.
With these documents and with the help of the machine books and machine lists that document the sale of all Hamm rollers since the 1920s, Alfred Meyer wrote this extensively researched and meticulously edited work.

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Autor:	Alfred Meyer
Presentación:	253 páginas, 28.5 x 22 x 2.5 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	600 fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Alemán
Editorial:	Verlag Podszun (D, 2021)
ISBN:	9783751610292