boring machine
Americannoun
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The 190m-long boring machine is named Madeleine, after Madeleine Nobbs, the former president of the Women's Engineering Society.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
Fed up with Los Angeles traffic, Elon Musk launched The Boring Co. with two tweets in 2016, promising “to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
Builders must somehow thread the needle below streets and utilities, while crisscrossing above the 1989 downtown transit tunnel, when a tunnel boring machine digs south from Uptown toward Sodo.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
This round metal device, a custom-made tunnel boring machine that’s decorated with colorful handprints, was lowered into a 138-foot shaft weeks ago and is now preparing to dig a two-mile sewer tunnel in Alexandria.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
The borings on land were mostly core borings, and were generally made with the chilled shot boring machine.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, The North River Division. Paper No. 1151 by Jacobs, Charles M.
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