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Tunneling, Explosive Compounds, and Rock Drills

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Title: 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 the Rise of Machine Rock-Drilling; and Detailed Descriptions of the Carious Rock-Drills and Air-Compressors in Use. Also, Descriptions of the Dimensions and Cost of Over Seventeen Hundred Tunnels, from Notes Furnished by Engineers and Railroad Companies in Europe, North and South America, and New Zealand. With a History of Tummeling from the Reign of Ramses II to the Present Time
Author: Drinker, Henry S.
Description: [10], 1030, xliv pp. More than 1000 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, 18 (numbered 2-19) large folding plates at rear. (stout 4to) 29.5x23 cm. (11½x9") period half black morocco and boards. First Edition.Rare first edition of an important text book of tunneling technology. Folding plates at rear measure 29.5x91 cm. and depict "Geologic and Working Profiles of the Nesquehoning, the Musconetcong, and the Hoosac Tunnels, etc., etc." (from the title page. Absence of a plate list makes confirmation of actual plate count difficult, but the first plate named in the above list is also the first at rear (numbered "2"). No copy has appeared at auction since 1989 which copy was described as missing 1 plate.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date Published: 1878