Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills.
Subtitle: 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: By Henry S. Drinker. Illustrated with about one thousand cuts set in the text, and twenty large folding plates.
Edition: Third ed., rev. and enl.
Publisher: John Wiley
Published: 1893
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1143
Subjects: Tunnels; Blasting; Rock-drills