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| Picture No | 10036213 |
| Date | 1869 |
| Description | Boring machine used in the Hoosac tunnel 1869 |
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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.
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| Source | Engraving in 'The English Mechanic and Mirror of Science', 1 October 1869, page 46 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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