Abstract
THIS fine quarto volume furnishes a very valuable and comprehensive history of a system of tunnelling, especially under rivers and in water-bearing strata, which was inaugurated by Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, as regards the employment of a shield, in the celebrated Thames Tunnel between Rotherhithe and Wapping, commenced in 1825. but, owing to the inrush of the river into the works on two occasions through breaks in the stratum of clay, and financial difficulties, only completed in 1843.
Tunnel Shields, and the Use of Compressed Air in Subaqueous Works.
By W. C. Copperthwaite. Pp. xv + 390. (London: Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., 1906.) Price 31s. 6d. net.
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Tunnel Shields, and the Use of Compressed Air in Subaqueous Works . Nature 74, 348–349 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074348a0
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