Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills. Giving the details of practical tunnel work; the constituents and properties of modern explosive compounds; the principles of blasting; the history of ... machine rock-drilling; and detailed descriptions of the various rock-drills and air-compressors in use ... tunneling from the reign of Rameses II. to the present time ... Illustrated with about one thousand cuts set in the text, and twenty large folding plates. By Henry S. Drinker ...
Edition:
3d ed., rev. & enl.
Publisher:
J. Wiley & Sons,
Copyright Date:
1888
Description:
1143, [ii]-xlvii p. illus., XIX (i.e., 21) fold. pl. 30 cm.
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