Word: tunnelling
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Back in 1802, when Napoleon still cherished dreams of conquering Britain, one of his engineers proposed the construction of a tunnel under the English Channel. The British never quite forgot Napoleon's designs, and for a century and a half afterward British governments vetoed the idea of a Channel tunnel as a threat to England's island security. But Britain's decision to join the European Common Market brings to an end the historic British policy of "splendid isolation" from the Continent. Last week, as British Transport Minister Ernest Marples flew to Paris to open the first...
...Assist from the U.S. The man behind the tunnel is not a European, but Manhattan Lawyer Frank Davidson, 43. Appalled by a rough Channel crossing in 1956, Davidson was the moving spirit in setting up the prestigious Channel Tunnel Study Group, consisting of his own Technical Studies Inc., a pair of venerable British and French companies associated with an 1881 attempt to bore a commercial tunnel, and the Suez Co., which, stripped of its canal, has become an investment company...
After exhaustive studies of both tunnel and bridge schemes, the group flatly favored a tunnel to be bored or dredged out of the chalk Channel bed. Plans for the bored tunnel actually call for two large parallel tunnels, each containing a single railway track, plus a small service tunnel. Stretching from Folkestone to Calais, the tunnels would run underwater for 23 miles. Autos and trucks would drive onto flatcars, be whisked through the tunnels at 60 m.p.h. by electric locomotives. Passenger and freight trains would be routed directly through the tunnels, cutting the train time from London to Paris from...
...Commission's long-planned underground experiment in the peaceful applications of nuclear energy. Southeast of Carlsbad, N.Mex., a shaft has already been sunk 1,200 ft. in the ground to penetrate a thick formation of rock salt. From the shaft's bottom, a 1,116-ft. horizontal tunnel leads into the salt and curves back on itself in a giant hook. At the tip of the hook a small (5-kiloton) bomb will be exploded in December. If all goes well, the explosion will seal the horizontal tunnel by collapsing the hooked end, and it will leave...
...circular tunnel and the experimental hall are shielded by concrete walls ten feet thick. To avoid radioactive dangers, doors seal automatically and a 40-ton crane operated by remote control moves equipment...