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Comments on reply on The Boring Company starts trials with 'revolutionary' Tunnel Boring Machine 'Prufrock'
Paolo Kerguel on The Boring Company starts trials with 'revolutionary' Tunnel Boring Machine 'Prufrock' (): Finally some hope for some radical technological progress in mechanized...
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' thanks to the Japanese engineers' contributions to tunnel boring machine technology'?
Are you serious?
The last time I checked it was the USA a.k.a Robbins, who invented TBM and took it further than anyone else.
Indeed Robbins invented the TBM. And then stopped right there. What innovation worth mentioning did Robbins achieve since 60s last century? The sad fact is, I cannot think of any. And for the Japanese, they made tremendous innovations in slurry technology field and also in big diameter TBM technologies.