MANEUVERABLE TUNNEL MOLE NAVIGATES AROUND OBSTACLES
When surface congestion prevented open-cut construction, a mole with 39 cutter heads twisted and turned its way past the foundations of historic buildings to bore a 1.6-mi subway tunnel 82 ft below the streets of central Paris.
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Corporate Authors:
McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
330 West 42nd Street
New York, NY United States 10036 -
Authors:
- Sullivan, M
- Publication Date: 1974-10
Media Info
- Features: Photos;
- Pagination: p. 56-57
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Serial:
- Construction Methods and Equipment
- Volume: 56
- Issue Number: 10
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Construction; Subways; Tunneling; Tunneling machines
- Identifier Terms: Paris Metro
- Geographic Terms: Paris (France)
- Old TRIS Terms: Subway construction
- Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00097242
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Construction Methods and Equipment
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jul 29 1981 12:00AM