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Artist
- Name:
- Unknown
Illustration
- Subject:
- Science & technology
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- Wellcome Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Les nouvelles conquêtes de la science, vol. 2
- Author(s):
- Figuier, Louis
- Publisher:
- Paris: Librairie Illustrée, Marpon & Flammarion, n.d. [after 1883]
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
View of Ferroux’s boring machine with its operating crew. This pneumatic boring machine was used in the cutting of the Gotthard Tunnel and was an improvement on the machine used for the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.
The initial Gotthard Tunnel was 9.3 mi (15 km) long between Göschenen and Airolo, Switzerland. The building started in 1872 and it opened for traffic in 1882.
The caption reads in the original French: La machine perforatrice Ferroux.
Keywords: 1880s, 19th century, black & white, machine, male
