Practical Tunneling; Explaining in Detail the Setting Out of the Works; Shaft Sinking and Heading Driving; Ranging the Lines and Levelling Under Ground; Sub-Excavating, Timbering, and the Construction of the Brickwork of Tunnels; with the Amount of L
Author:
SIMMS, FREDERICK WALTER & HASKOLL, W. DAVIS (revision, plates)
Title:
Practical Tunneling; Explaining in Detail the Setting Out of the Works; Shaft Sinking and Heading Driving; Ranging the Lines and Levelling Under Ground; Sub-Excavating, Timbering, and the Construction of the Brickwork of Tunnels; with the Amount of L
Publisher:
Lockwood & Co. 1860
Description:
SECOND REVISED EDITION, quarto, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering + blind-stamped decorative rule to spine, blind-stamped decoration + decorative rule to front & rear boards, frontispiece, 189pp + numerous folding plates to rear, illus/diagrams, VG- (moderate bruising to spine + extrems w/ 1 cm of surface loss to rear board, boards lightly bent at extrems, light tanning to page edges, light-moderate foxing throughout [heavier to folding plates], light-moderate creasing + occasional chipping to folding plates
Keywords:
railway tunnelling engineer railroad train trains tunnel tunnels civil engineering blechingley tunnel saltwood tunnel