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...Tunnel. Ley leads off with the tunnel under the English Channel. The first proposal (1802) was ahead of its time, but practical. Work began at both ends in about 1880. The English pilot tunnel (6,500 ft. long) had electric lights and hand-drawn cars in which Gladstone, Disraeli and Queen Victoria rode on sightseeing trips. Then the British War Office, aided by the London Times, killed the channel tunnel. England, they warned, would be an island no longer; some enemy might grab the tunnel and pour troops through it. By 1884 the British stopped digging, and nothing has been...
...fellow men and to keep an eye on his projects abroad, Builder Morrison took off on a five-week, world-girdling trip. His itinerary: Casablanca, to look over work on the North African air bases; Iraq, to bid on a dam project; Italy, to check on a tunnel through the Italian Alps. Many of Morrison's other jobs are in primitive, undeveloped countries, where MK's giant power shovels and 18-ton bulldozers are as much a source of wonder as the iron horse was to the Indians a century ago. In these countries, M-K has caused...
...suit his needs- Part of this change is due to the new machinery: the clanking bulldozers that knock down forests, the great draglines that claw house-sized holes at a single scoop, the cranes, jumbos, earth movers, power shovels, trenchers and dozens of other mechanical giants that lay pipelines, tunnel through mountains, and pour concrete for dams with the ease of a man putting down a sidewalk. But the biggest part of the change is the revolution in construction thinking; today, there is almost no project too big to tackle, no reasonable limit to reshaping the earth to make...
...department also maintains for the University an extensive tunnel system which houses all of Harvard's power and steam lines. The steam is bought in bulk from the Cambridge Power and Electric Light Company, crossing the river at one point underneath the floor of Week's Bridge. In the upper left photograph, a worker is making one of his periodic inspections of the tunnel along Memorial Drive near Dunster. House. Directly above, a workman is producing the sundry signs that inform the student what he may or may not do. This task is also performed at the Memorial Drive shops...
Climax' miners, who must tunnel through Colorado's Bartlett Mountain for the ore, call it "molly bedamned," and until World War I no one had much use for the metal. The Germans, then short of tungsten, first used it to harden the barrels of their Big Berthas. It was used on a large scale again in World War II. In peacetime, however, most steelmakers preferred tungsten; molybdenum production usually dropped off to a trickle...