Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

Robert Gilmour LeTourneau was a man with a vision. A big vision. A vision that was his and his alone. He designed and built earth-moving machines that sculpted and re-shaped vast sections of the world. Most, if not all of his designs were years or decades ahead of their time. Believing that he was doing God's work,  he didn't have many moments of doubt that he was going to be successful in whatever wild creation or huge contract he took on. The Wikipedia page for RG LeTourneau http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._G._LeTourneau Here's a tour of some of RG's machines and ideas. The Tournalayer...a machine that builds a house in one pass. Click on the video icon The LeTourneau house subdivision...click the link LeTourneau houses   More LeTourneau machines An early version of a dirt scraper machine, which became the basic idea for every scraper that any other company has built since. This was in the years before WWII. Here is a video of an older model LeT...