Comment on "The first RECTANGULAR Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM)!"
Although the area cut is rectangular, the cutting is still done circularly though. OK that is not surprising. But I don't get it. The small cutting heads do not cover the whole surface. Or is it me missing something?Comment on "A Great Moment of Tunnelling from way back: 1 December 1990 EUROTUNNEL Breakthrough!"
Looking at the meeting point on the drawing, it looks like the English did the most of the boring and the French just waited!
cover tunnel photo by: Matt Brown from London, England / CC BY
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