A shovel is a tool used for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore. Most shovels are hand tools consisting of a broad blade fixed to a medium-lengt
An entrenching tool, intrenching tool, E-tool, or trenching tool is a digging tool used by military forces for a variety of military purposes. Survivalists, campers, hikers, and other outdoors groups
Shovel
…During the Second Industrial Revolution around 1900, heavy equipment such as crawler excavators became available. Shovels known as entrenching tools were made by the British in 1908. They were used by the Germans in World War I and World War II. Entrenching tool…
World War I era entrenching tool
US Bayonet Model 1873 Trowel
Linnemann shovel from WWI (Romania)
World War I and II era Russian MPL-50 (malaya pekhotnaya lopata – small infantry spade) are similar to the entrenching tools used by most armies participating in those conflicts.