Practical Tunnelling: The Setting Out of the Works, Shaft-Sinking and Heading-Driving, Ranging the Lines and Levelling under Ground, Sub-Excavating, ... the Construction of the Brickwork of Tunnels - Brossura

Simms, Frederick Walter

 
9781108070300: Practical Tunnelling: The Setting Out of the Works, Shaft-Sinking and Heading-Driving, Ranging the Lines and Levelling under Ground, Sub-Excavating, ... the Construction of the Brickwork of Tunnels

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

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Descrizione del libro

The engineer and technical writer Frederick Walter Simms (1803–65) ranked as a leading authority on tunnel construction for railways. This illustrated work, first published in 1844 and regarded as the standard textbook on the subject at the time, discusses the building of two tunnels for the South Eastern Railway.

Contenuti

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.

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9781331976448: Practical Tunnelling: Explaining in Detail the Setting Out of the Works; Shaft Sinking and Heading Driving; Ranging the Lines and Levelling Under ... of Tunnels; With the Amount of Labou

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ISBN 10:  1331976448 ISBN 13:  9781331976448
Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2018
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