Portrait and monument at Turin to commemorate the tunneling of the Alps 5817 The New Harbor of Vera Cruz.
Monument at Turin to Commemorate the Tunneling of the Alps.
An important engineering invention for tunneling through silt or soft soil is the so-called "shield.
In mining and tunneling through rock, the rock drill has been the implement of paramount importance and utility.
Tunneling under rivers presents many more difficulties than driving through the hardest rock.
At the same time the Germans were tunneling to plant mines under the Bedfords' trench.
The earth here was especially adaptable for mines, and both sides made many attempts to work destruction by tunneling forward.
Then the French spent the next ten days in tunneling to Steenstraate.
Perhaps the most extraordinary of the campaign was the mine laid by the Italians after infinitely difficult and very extensive tunneling in solid rock at the Cima del Col di Lana.
An interesting detail of this operation is the fact that while the Italians were tunneling for this great mine they were perfectly aware that the Austrians also were at work upon a similar effort.
From these brief descriptions of a few of the tunnels in England examined by Mr. Storrow, one can form a pretty correct opinion of the ordinary difficulties in tunneling which have been met and overcome by the English engineers.
I know that when I first went to Ingolstadt they had some scheme on for tunneling out of the inner court through the rampart so as to come out half-way up the bank above the moat on the south side.
I was very glad, for there were never less than two inches of water when I worked there, and it was a horrible job, as all tunneling is.
His ways are much the same as those of Miner whom you have just met, excepting that when he is tunneling deep in the ground he pushes the earth to the surface after the manner of Grubby Gopher, and his mounds become a nuisance to farmers.
When he is tunneling just under the surface he makes ridges exactly like these of his eastern cousin.
Another trouble connected with tunneling was the number of traitors and spies among us.
The great tunneling tool was the indispensable half-canteen.
Unlike us, they had taken no morning nap, but had gone on with their tunneling in their usual steady way.
After the decision is finally made the tunneling is a rapid process.
The bed of the Harlem River at the point of tunneling consists of mud, silt, and sand, much of which was so nearly in a fluid condition that it was removed by means of a jet.
This tunnelingwas through very fine running sand and the section to be excavated was small.
The methods of construction employed were novel in subaqueous tunneling and are partly shown on photographs on pages 62 and 63.
For the fifth track the earth was removed by tunneling to the limits of the subway, and then the rock below was blasted out.
It is believed that this was the first time that soft material met with in tunneling under a river has been solidified by means of fire.
A tunneling shield consists essentially of a tube or cylinder slightly larger in diameter than the tunnel it is intended to build, which slides over the exterior of the finished lining like the tubes of a telescope.
Early in the fight for possession of the hill the tunneling began.
Statements from authoritative sources since the close of the war indicate that this tunneling contest was somewhat of a "diving" nature.
The weather was intensely cold, and when the stone flooring of the hall was removed and a deep trench cut, in order that the damage done by the tunneling might be repaired, the chill arising from the damp earth was terrible.
When the tunneling approached its completion, all the other necessary preparations were made.
Tunneling mud-banks under water, with streams of water or streams of compressed air, struck me as decidedly a novelty.
He was tunneling under a vessel with a wall of sand beside him higher than his head, and the first thing he knew he was flat on his back, with sand jammed in his valve so it couldn't open.
Clinton had been engaged with me in our tunneling enterprise at Macon, and was one of my most intimate friends.
This time we decided to limit the membership of the tunneling party to a select few, and these were sworn to secrecy.
In the Mersey tunnel, and in the experimental work of the Channel tunnel, Colonel Beaumont and Major English's tunneling machine has done most admirable work.
But there are, happily, cases of subaqueous tunneling where the water can be dealt with by ordinary pumping power, more or less extensive, and where the material is capable of being cut by a tunneling machine.
Closely connected with tunneling machines are the machines for "getting" coal.
The tunneling operations were carried on from 5 shafts, No.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tunneling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: deepening; depression; excavation; lowering; mining; probing; sinking
