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.

Tunneling, explosive compounds, and rock drills. Also, descriptions of the European and American systems, with tables giving the dimensions, cost, and leading data relating to the construction of about two thousand tunnels, compiled from notes furnished by engineers and railroad companies in North and South America, Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand, comprising a review of tunneling from the reign of Rameses II to the present time.

Mode of access: Internet.