Thames Tunnel Company, incorporated 1824 ...

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 25335.

Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills. Giving the details of practical tunnel work; the constituents and properties of modern explosive compounds; the principles of blasting; the history of ... machine rock-drilling; and detailed descriptions of the various rock-drills and air-compressors in use ... with a history of tunneling from the reign of Rameses II. to the present time.

Plates I and II on one sheet.