boring machine
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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
In a separate case, Washington state is still seeking up to $44 million from insurance companies to recover its costs in connection with repair and reinstatement of the tunnel boring machine.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
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
It was one of the nation’s most ambitious urban tunneling projects, but also became known for a breakdown in the tunnel boring machine that caused a long delay.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2021
An interesting tool, also, is the large vertical boring machine for largest size cylinders; Seaward spent £5,000 upon this, and it is certainly an admirable tool.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
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