Frederick Walter Simms

Practical Tunnelling

The Setting Out of the Works, Shaft-Sinking and Heading-Driving, Ranging the Lines and Levelling Under Ground, Sub-Exc

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Produktbeschreibung

An illustrated 1844 textbook covering tunnel construction for railways, written by a leading authority on the subject at the time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9781108070300
• ISBN-10: 1108070302
• Artikelnr.: 41249028

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Geological features of the South-Eastern Railway
2. Description of the observatory
3. Setting out the shafts
4. Shaft sinking
5. Shaft sinking (cont.)
6. Shaft sinking (concl.)
7. Driving the heads
8. Form and dimension of Bletchingley and Saltwood tunnels
9. Construction of the tunnels
10. Construction of the tunnels (cont.)
11. Construction of the tunnels (cont.)
12. Construction of the tunnels (concl.)
13. Tunnel entrances
14. The centres of ordinary construction
15. Miscellaneous
Appendix.