Marion Power Shovel Company designed, manufactured and sold steam shovel

Steam shovel

A steam shovel is a large steam-powered excavating machine designed for lifting and moving material such as rock and soil. It is the earliest type of power shovel or excavator. They played a major role in public works in the 19th and early 20th century, being key to the construction of railroads...

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Excavator

Excavators are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, stick, bucket and cab on a rotating platform . The house sits atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. A cable-operated excavator uses winches and steel ropes to accomplish the movements. They are a natural progression from the...

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Dragline excavator

A dragline excavator is a piece of heavy equipment used in civil engineering and surface mining.In civil engineering the smaller types are used for road, port construction, and as pile driving rigs. The larger types are used in strip-mining operations to move overburden above coal, and for...

s for use in the construction and mining industries.

Founded in Marion, Ohio

Marion, Ohio

Marion is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Marion County. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio, approximately north of Columbus....

 in August, 1884 by Henry Barnhart, Edward Huber

Edward Huber

Edward Huber was an American inventor and industrialist.Huber established his role in the modernization of American agriculture when he invented a “revolving hay rake” that allowed one man to do in three hours what three men could do in a day...

 and George W. King as the Marion Steam Shovel Company, the company grew through sales and acquisitions throughout the twentieth century. The company changed its name to Marion Power Shovel Company in 1946 to reflect the industry's change from steam power to diesel power.