Boring machine used in the Hoosac tunnel 1869
Workers using a primitive boring machine to make the tunnel, lying between Switzerland and Italy, being thirty-six miles long and about twenty-five feet broad, the enterprise of Simplon was projected by Napoleon, with a joint expense of France and Italy
Picture No
10036213
Media ID
47200366
Size
6734px x 3209px
(3.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Engraving in The English Mechanic and Mirror of Science', 1 October 1869, page 46
Date
1869
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