Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 417
e fortwenty miles through it is a mere question of time,money, and organization, and as the engineers havethese resources at their command, they are sanguine,and we may even say confident, of success. The method by which it is proposed that theexcavation shall be made is in some respects simi-lar… … View of Dover. by an engine, invented by Mr. Dickenson Brunton, which works in thecomparatively soft strata like a carpenters auger. A beginning will bemade simultaneously on both sides of the Channel, and the effort will atfirst be limited to what we may describe as making a clear hole throughfrom…
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