Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 303
sunken rockwith gunpowder. A large raft, or floor, supported on barges, was mooredover the sunken rock, and from this men, armed with long poles shodwith steel, drilled numerous holes, into which charges of gunpowder wereplaced, and fired in the usual manner by the electric battery. This tem-poraiy… … FlG. 132.—The Viceroy of Egypt cuttitig the last etnbankmeiit of the Reservoir of the Plain of Suez, to unite the two seas—the Mediterranean a?id the Red Sea. tained a marsh, or mere, of very brackish water. The possibility ofkeeping this great area filled with sea water had been denied by…
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