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Excerpt from The Armour Engineer, Vol. 18: November, 1926 Some years ago, when little boys used to yell Get a horse at the hesitant and asthmatic vehicle which was the ancestor of the modern automobile, the term ditch-digger identified the man who had to perform the hardest labor imaginable. Squads of these workmen would be in the street with their crowbars and hammers, and there was always the sound of metal ringing on metal as the ponderous ham mers descended. The passers - by would wonder that no hand was crushed in the process. That was before the development of the Paving Breaker. Work that fifteen men took a day to perform is now accomplished by one man. Compressed Air has supplanted the uncertain human muscle, and the ditch-digger is no longer the man but the machine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.