Tunneling, explosive compounds & 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; the detailed descriptions of the various rock-drills and air-compressors in use ... Comprising a review of 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.
Edition:
2nd ed. rev. & enl.
Publisher:
J. Wiley,
Copyright Date:
1882
Description:
1143 [ii]-xlvii p. : ill., XIX (i.e., 21) fol. pl. ; 30 cm.
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