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Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills. Also, descriptions of the European and American systems ... with tables giving the dimensions, cost, and leading data relating to the construction of about two thousand tunnels, compiled from notes furnished by engineers and railroad companies in North and South America, Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, comprising a review of tunneling from the reign of Rameses II to the present time.

Title
Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills. Also, descriptions of the European and American systems ... with tables giving the dimensions, cost, and leading data relating to the construction of about two thousand tunnels, compiled from notes furnished by engineers and railroad companies in North and South America, Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, comprising a review of tunneling from the reign of Rameses II to the present time. By Henry S. Drinker.
Author
Drinker, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937.
Publication
New York, John Wiley, 1893.

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Description
x, 1143, xlvii p. illus., XIX fold. plates.; 31 cm.
Subject
  • Tunnels
  • Blasting
  • Rock-drills
Call Number
VDCW+ (Drinker, H. S. Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills)
LCCN
gs 38000028
OCLC
3880010
Author
Drinker, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1850-1937.
Title
Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills. Also, descriptions of the European and American systems ... with tables giving the dimensions, cost, and leading data relating to the construction of about two thousand tunnels, compiled from notes furnished by engineers and railroad companies in North and South America, Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, comprising a review of tunneling from the reign of Rameses II to the present time. By Henry S. Drinker.
Imprint
New York, John Wiley, 1893.
Edition
Third ed., rev. and enl.
Local Note
Wilgus Collection.
Research Call Number
VDCW+ (Drinker, H. S. Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills)
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