Picture No | 10193131 |
Date | 1869 |
Description | Boring machine used in the Mont Cenis tunnel 1869 |
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Workers using a boring machine in the second working gallery invented by M. Sommeiller, to make the railway tunnel linking southeast France and northwest Italy.
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Source | Engraving in 'The Illustrated London News', 13 February 1869, page 152 and also in L'Univers Illustre, 29 October 1870 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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