WHAT THE STEAM SHOVEL IS DOING FOR THE WORLD; Road-Building and Mining Marvels, Impossible a Few Years Ago, Have Become Familiar Facts in Engineering and Have Added Untold Millions to World's Wealth.

Big Brutus is the world's largest electric shovel, standing 16 stories in the fields of southeast Kansas. The coal mine it helped dig has long... 'Big Brutus,' World's Largest Electric Shovel ...