INDEX
- Accidents and Repairs in the Belgian Method, [152]
- Accidents in Tunnels:
- After Construction, [308]
- Baltimore Belt Line, [165]
- Chattanooga Tunnel, [311]
- During Construction, [301]
- General Discussion, [301]
- Giovi Tunnel, [309]
- Repairing of, [304]
- Acetylene Gas Lighting, [334]
- Air Compressors, Description of, [87]
- Air Locks, [264]-[272]
- Air Pressure, [268]
- American Method:
- General Description, [172]
- Excavation, [172]
- Strutting, [174]
- Hauling, [175]
- Arrangement of Drill Holes, [90]
- Artificial Ventilation, [327]
- Austrian Method of Tunneling:
- Advantages and Disadvantages, [180]
- Excavation, [176]
- General Description, [176]
- Lining, [180]
- Strutting, [177]
- Average Progress in Tunnels, [342]
- Baltimore Belt Line Tunnel, General Description, [160]
- Barlow’s Shield, [242]
- Beach’s Shield, [246]
- Belgian Method:
- Accidents and Repairs, [152]
- Advantages and Disadvantages, [152]
- Excavation, [145]
- General Description, [144]
- Lining, [148]
- Hauling, [150]
- Strutting, [146]
- Bench, [131]
- Bends, [268]
- Blackwall’s Tunnel Shield, [248]
- Blasting-cone, [33]
- Blickford Match, [31]
- Boston Subway:
- General Descriptions, [203]
- Roof Shield, [251]
- Boulder Tunnel Relined, [315]
- Box-cars, [61]
- Box Strutting, [51]
- Brandt Drilling Machine, [28], 112
- Brown, W. L., [269]
- Brunel’s Shield, [240]
- Caissons, [293]
- Canals and Pipe Lines, [86]
- Cascade Tunnel, [98]
- Center-cut, [91]
- Center Line:
- Curvilinear Tunnels, [14]
- Determination of, [9]
- Rectilinear Tunnels, [9]
- Simplon Tunnel, [106]
- Submarine Tunnels, [265]
- Triangulation, [12]
- Transferred through Center Shafts, [13]
- Transferred through Side Shafts, [14]
- Value’s Device, [10]
- Centers:
- For Arches, [68]
- English Method, [169]
- Ground Molds, [66]
- Italian Method, [184]
- Lagging, [71]
- Leading Frames, [67]
- Setting Up, [70]
- Striking, [71]
- Chattanooga Tunnel, Accident, [311]
- City and South London Railway Shield, [250]
- Classification of Tunnels, [42]
- Coal-gas Lighting, [333]
- Cofferdam Method of Tunneling, [281]
- Van Buren Street Tunnel, Chicago, [282]
- Collapse of Tunnels, [302]
- Compressed Air:
- For Power, [87]
- For Ventilation, [330]
- Concrete Lining, [75]
- Fort George Tunnel, [139]
- Murray Hill Tunnel, [126]
- Cost of:
- Double-track Tunnels, [340]
- Hauling, [338]
- Headings, [337]
- Hoisting, [338]
- Single-track Tunnel, [340]
- Submarine Tunnels, [341]
- Subways, [209]-[217]
- Tunnels, [336]
- Craven, Alfred, [39]
- Craven’s Sunflower, [39]
- Cross-section:
- Dimensions of, [20]
- Form of, [18]
- Hudson River Tunnel Pennsylvania Railroad, [277]
- Crown-bar (see [American Method]).
- Subways, [204]-[211]
- Croton Aqueduct Tunnel, [95]
- Culverts, [80]
- Detroit River Tunnel, [296]
- Diamond Drilling Machine, [27]
- Directing the Shield, [265]
- Drift, [37]
- Drift Method:
- General Discussion, [102]
- Murray Hill Tunnel, [123]
- Simplon Tunnel, [103]
- Drilling Machines:
- Brandt, [112]
- Ingersoll, [26]
- Drills:
- Diamond, [27]
- Hand, [23]
- Mountings for, [25]
- Percussion, [24]
- Power, [24]
- Rotary, [27]
- Dumping Cars, [60]
- Electric Firing, [32]
- Electric Lighting, [335]
- English Method:
- Advantages and Disadvantages, [171]
- Centers, [169]
- Excavation, [166]
- General Discussion, [166]
- Lining, [170]
- Strutting, [167]
- Enlargement of the Profile, [38]
- Entrances, [81]
- Erector, [272]
- Excavation:
- American Method, [172]
- Arrangement of Drill Holes, [90]
- Austrian Method, [176]
- Belgian Method, [145]
- Center-cut, [91]
- Enlargement of Profile, [38]
- English Method, [166]
- Fort George Tunnel, [136]
- German Method, [155]
- Headings, [37], 91
- Hudson River Tunnel of Pennsylvania Railroad, [273]
- Italian Method, [182]
- Murray Hill Tunnel, [124]
- Quicksand Method, [189]
- Pilot Method, [193]
- Shield and Compressed Air Method, [267]
- Simplon Tunnel, [110]
- Excavating Machines:
- For Earth, [22]
- For Rock, [23]
- Explosions, [33]
- Dynamite, [30]
- Gunpowder, [28]
- Nitroglycerine, [29]
- Quantity of, [34]
- Storage of, [30]
- Failure of Tunnel Roof, [305]
- Forgie, James, [269]
- Fort George Tunnel, [135]
- Foundations for Lining, [76]
- Fox, Charles B., [103]
- Frame Strutting, [49]
- Fuses, [31]
- Geological Survey, [3]
- German Method:
- Advantages and Disadvantages, [159]
- Excavation, [155]
- General Description, [155]
- Hauling, [158]
- Strutting, [156]
- Giovi Tunnel Accident, [309]
- Graveholz Tunnel, [98]
- Greathead’s Shield, [245]
- Hand Drills, [23]
- Harlem River Tunnel, [285]
- Hauling:
- American Method, [175]
- Belgian Method, [150]
- Italian Method, [185]
- German Method, [158]
- Hudson River Tunnel of Pennsylvania Railroad, [278]
- Motive Power, [61]
- By Way of Entrances, [59]
- Simplon Tunnel, [111]
- By Way of Shafts, [62]
- Heading and Bench Method:
- Fort George Tunnel, [135]
- General Discussion, [130]
- St. Gothard Tunnel, [1]
- Headings, [37], 91
- Hewett, H. B., [269]
- History of Tunnels, xiii
- Hoisting Machines:
- General Discussion, [62]
- Elevators, [64]
- Horse Gins, [63]
- Windlass, [63]
- Hoosac Tunnel, [93]
- Hopkins, Stephen W., [135]
- Hudson River Tunnel of Pennsylvania Railroad, [269]
- Hydraulic Jacks, [260], 271
- Hydraulic Rams, [271]
- Illumination:
- Acetylene Gas, [334]
- Coal-gas, [333]
- Electric, [335]
- Hudson River Tunnel of Pennsylvania Railroad, [280]
- Lamps and Lanterns, [330]
- Inclination of Strata, [6]
- Ingersoll Drilling Machine, [26]
- Inverted Arch Lining, [77]
- Iron and Masonry Lining, [74]
- Iron Lining, [73], 261, [276]
- Iron Strutting, [55]
- Full Section, [56]
- Headings, [56]
- Shafts, [57]
- Italian Method:
- Advantages and Disadvantages, [188]
- Excavation, [182]
- General Description, [182]
- Modifications, [186]
- Strutting, [183]
- Jacks, [260], 271
- Joining the Caissons, [295]
- Lagging, [71]
- Lamps and Lanterns, [330]
- Lighting (see [Illumination]).
- Lining:
- Austrian Method, [180]
- Belgian Method, [148]
- Concrete, [126], 139
- English Method, [170]
- Foundations, [76]
- General Observations, [78]
- German Method, [158]
- Hudson River Tunnel Pennsylvania Railroad, [276]
- Invert, [77]
- Iron, [73], 261, [276]
- Iron and Masonry, [74]
- Italian Method, [185]
- Masonry, [74]
- Quicksand Method, [191]
- Roof Arch, [77]
- Side Tunnels, [79], 83
- Side Walls, [77]
- Subways, [207]-[213]
- Timber, [72]
- Thickness of Masonry, [78], 83
- Little Tom Tunnel Relined, [321]
- Loose Soil (see [Soft Ground]).
- Masonry (see [Centers]).
- Masonry Culverts, [80]
- Masonry (see [Lining]).
- Masonry Lining, [74]
- Masonry Niches, [81]
- McBean, Daniel, [285]
- Mechanical Installations for Tunnel Work, [84]
- Milwaukee Tunnel, [226]
- Mont Cenis Tunnel, [92]
- Monthly Progress of Tunnels, [342]
- Mullan Tunnel Relined, [319]
- Murray Hill Tunnel, [123]
- Natural Ventilation, [326]
- New York Rapid Transit Subway, [209]
- Niagara Falls Power Tunnel, [97]
- Niches, [81]
- Open Cut or Tunnel, [1]
- Open-cut Tunneling:
- General Discussion, [195]
- Parallel Longitudinal Trenches, [197]
- Single Trench, [196]
- Single Narrow Trench, [197]
- Transverse Trenches, [200]
- Tunnels on the Surface, [200]
- Palisade Tunnel, [94]
- Pennsylvania Railroad Shield, [270]
- Percussion Drills, [24]
- Pilot Method of Tunneling, [192]
- Plank Centers, [69]
- Platform Cars, [59]
- Plenum Method of Ventilation, [329]
- Pneumatic Caissons, [287]
- Polar Protractor, [39]
- Portals, [81]
- Power Drills, [24]
- Power Plants:
- Air Compressors, [87]
- Canals and Pipe Lines, [86]
- Cascade Tunnel, [98]
- Croton Aqueduct Tunnel, [95]
- General Description, [84]
- Graveholz Tunnel, [98]
- Hoosac Tunnel, [93]
- Hudson River Tunnel Pennsylvania Railroad, [279]
- Mont Cenis Tunnel, [92]
- Murray Hill Tunnel, [128]
- Niagara Falls Power Tunnel, [97]
- Palisades Tunnel, [94]
- Receivers, [89]
- Reservoirs, [86]
- Simplon Tunnel, [117]
- Sonnstein Tunnel, [99]
- St. Clair River Tunnel, [99]
- St. Gothard Tunnel, [133]
- Steam, [85]
- Strickler Tunnel, [96]
- Turbines, [86]
- Prelini’s Shield, [251]
- Presence of Water, [7]
- Prevention of Collapse, [303]
- Progress in Sinking Shafts, [343]
- Progress of Excavation, [342]
- Progress of the Work, [342]
- Progress in Simplon Tunnel, [122]
- Quantity of Air for Ventilation, [331]
- Quicksand Tunneling:
- General Discussion, [188]
- Removing the Seepage Water, [191]
- Quantity of Timber in Strutting, [54]
- Receivers, [89]
- Relining Tunnels, [315]
- Boulder Tunnel, [315]
- Little Tom Tunnel, [321]
- Mullan Tunnel, [319]
- Repairing of Accidents in Tunnels, [308]
- Reservoirs, [86]
- Roof Arch Lining, [77]
- Roof Shield for Boston Subway, [251]
- Roof of Caissons, [287]-[291]
- Rotary Drills, [27]
- Ryder, B. H., [296]
- Saccardo System of Ventilation, [330]
- Saunders, W. L., [88]
- Seepage Water, [191]
- Seine River Tunnel, [293]
- Setting up Centers, [70]
- Severn Tunnel, [221]
- Shafts, Description of, [40]
- Shaler, Ira A., [142]
- Shield and Compressed Air Method, [263]
- Shield Construction:
- Diaphragm, [256]
- Cellular Division, [255]
- Dimensions of Shields, [259]
- Front End, [254]
- General Form, [252]
- Rear End, [257]
- Shell, [253]
- Shield Method:
- Barlow Shield, [242]
- Beach’s Shield, [245]
- Blackwall Tunnel Shield, [248]
- Brunel Shield, [240]
- City and South London Railway Shield, [250]
- Greathead’s Shield, [245]
- History, [238]
- Prelini’s Shield, [251]
- St. Clair River Tunnel Shield, [247]
- Side Shafts, [41]
- Side Tunnels Lining, [79]
- Side Walls Lining, [77]
- Simplon Tunnel, [103]
- Soils Encountered in Tunnels, [3]
- Sonnstein Tunnel, [99]
- Stations of Subways, [207]-[216]
- St. Clair River Tunnel Shield, [247]
- St. Gothard Tunnel, [132]
- Steam Power Plant, [85]
- Stratification of the Soils, [6]
- Strickler Tunnel, [96]
- Striking the Centers, [71]
- Strutting:
- American Method, [174]
- Austrian Method, [177]
- Belgian Method, [146]
- Dimensions of Timber, [54]
- English Method, [167]
- Fort George Tunnel, [137]
- Full Section, [51]
- German Method, [156]
- Headings, [48]
- Italian Method, [183]
- Murray Hill Tunnel, [125]
- Pilot Method, [193]
- Quantity of Timber, [54]
- Shafts, [52]
- Iron: Full Section, [56]
- Headings, [56]
- Shafts, [57]
- Submarine Tunneling:
- Cofferdam Method, [281]
- Compressed Air Method, [225]
- Detroit River Tunnel, [296]
- General Discussion, [218]
- Harlem River Tunnel, [285]
- Hudson River Tunnel Pennsylvania Railroad, [269]
- Lining, [261]
- Milwaukee Water-Works Tunnel, [226]
- Pneumatic Caisson Method, [284]
- Seine River Tunnel, [293]
- Severn Tunnel, [221]
- Shield and Compressed Air Method, [263]
- Shield System, [238]
- Sinking and Joining Sections Built on Land, [293]
- Van Buren Street Tunnel, [282]
- Subways:
- Boston, [203]
- Cost of, [209]-[217]
- Cross-sections, [204]-[211]
- General Discussion, [195]-[202]
- Lining, [207]-[213]
- New York Rapid Transit Railway, [209]
- Stations, [207]-[216]
- Sutro, Adolph, [330]
- Tamping, [32]
- Thickness of Lining Masonry, [78], 83
- Thomson Excavating Machine, [22]
- Timber Lining, [72]
- Timbering (see [Strutting]).
- Tremies, [299]
- Trussed Centers, [70]
- Tunnel or Open Cut, [1]
- Tunnels:
- Baltimore Belt Line, [160]
- Classification of, [42]
- Fort George, [135]
- Murray Hill, [123]
- Simplon, [103]
- St. Gothard, [132]
- Hard Rock, [84]
- Drift Method, [102]
- Comparison of Methods, [141]
- Heading and Bench Method, [152]
- Heading Method, [130]
- Soft Ground:
- American Method, [172]
- Austrian Method, [176]
- Belgian Method, [144]
- English Method, [166]
- German Method, [155]
- Italian Method, [182]
- Pilot Method, [192]
- Quicksand Method, [188]
- Submarine:
- Detroit River Tunnel, [296]
- Harlem River Tunnel, [285]
- Hudson River Tunnel of Pennsylvania Railroad, [269]
- Milwaukee Tunnel, [226]
- Seine River Tunnel, [293]
- Severn Tunnel, [221]
- Van Buren Street Tunnel, Chicago, [282]
- Under City Streets:
- General Description, [201]
- Boston Subway, [203]
- Turbines, [86]
- Vacuum Method of Ventilation, [328]
- Value, Beverley R., [10]
- Van Buren Street Tunnel, [282]
- Ventilation, [325]
- Artificial, [327]
- Compressed Air, [330]
- Natural, [326]
- Plenum Method, [329]
- Quantity of Air, [331]
- Saccardo’s System, [330]
- Simplon Tunnel, [120]
- Vacuum Method, [328]
- Vernon-Harcourt, L. F., [221]
- Working Platforms, [286]
- Wyman, Erastus, [293]
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