Thomas A. Walker

The Severn Tunnel

Its Construction and Difficulties, 1872 1887

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The 1890 second edition of contractor Thomas Walker's first-hand account of the construction of a Victorian engineering triumph.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9781108063401
• ISBN-10: 1108063403
• Artikelnr.: 38597219

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introductory note
1. Description of the estuary of the Severn
2. The early history of the undertaking
3. The commencement of the works
4. The final struggle
5. Great snow-storm
6. Tunnelling
7. A year of good progress
8. Further progress and greater troubles
9. A week of troubles
10. The means taken to deal with the great spring
11. Side-heading driven to big spring
12. The men by whom the work was done
Appendix.