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Construction Machinery History of the World in Photos Japanese Book NEW
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The definitive account of over 200 years of construction machinery in Japan and around the world, and of how it changed, explained with many valuable photographs. Construction machinery evolved rapidly with the birth of the steam engine. This is the expanded second revised edition: the contents of \"Construction Machinery: 200 Years in Photographs,\" which set out that history in detail, have been thoroughly reviewed, and roughly ten years of information since its publication has been added.
Contents :
1 Introduction
2 The age of construction implements — before the 18th century
3 The dawn of construction machinery — 1801-1850
4 The development of the steam tractor and the Suez Canal works — 1851-1880
5 The end of a century, a hundred years ago — 1881-1900
6 A history of the development of the crawler — 1860-1910
7 Putting varied engines to practical use, and the Panama Canal works — 1901-1910
8 Japan\'s adoption of construction machinery and the First World War — 1911-1920
9 Diversification of construction machinery and the Depression — 1920-1930
10 Putting the diesel engine to practical use — 1931-1940
11 Around the Second World War — 1941-1950
12 The age of innovation in construction machinery — 1951-1960
13 The evolution of Japanese construction machinery — 1961-1970
14 Changes in construction machinery and the gas turbine engine boom — 1971-1990
15 New currents in construction machinery — 1990-2010
16 Automation of construction machinery and environmental response — 2011 onwards
About the author Satoshi Okawa. Born in Yokohama in 1946. Graduated from the Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University in 1969 and joined Komatsu Ltd. He then worked at the Technical Research Centre, the Engine Development Centre, the Head Office Product Development Office, the Construction Equipment Research Centre, the Systems Development Centre and the Research Division, among others. He worked on the improvement and development of the engines, automatic transmissions, hydraulic equipment and the devices, parts and materials for working equipment used in all construction machinery, and on research and development of fuels and lubricating oils. He was also involved in developing a special hydraulic excavator running on fire-resistant lubricating oil. Alongside this research and development he has studied the history of the development of construction machinery to the present day. He left Komatsu in 2008. From 2014, as a researcher at the Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University, he has carried out research describing the operation of construction machinery in the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) to analyse problems. In September 2019 he received a doctorate (Systems Engineering) from the same university for his thesis \"Countermeasures against failures caused by lubricating oils in the drive systems of construction machinery — a reconsideration from a systems engineering approach.\" He is currently a member of the editorial committee for the \"Construction Machinery Handbook\" of the Japan Construction Machinery and Construction Association, and has served as the writer of its \"Progress of Construction Mechanisation\" section. (This information was current at the time of the book\'s publication.)
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