Tunneling, explosive compounds and rock drills : Giving the details of practical tunnel
works the cinstituents and property of modern explosive compounds, the principales
of blasting, various rock-drills and air-compressors, also descriptions of the European
and American systems of timbering and arching, with tables, with a history of tunneling
from the reign of Rameses II. to the present time / by Henry S. Drinker, 1878