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
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
To drill Seattle’s soft glacial soils, contractors chose an “earth-pressure balance” boring machine, which pushes forward at a pace that’s calibrated to match dirt flowing out the rear end.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
In a boring machine it is of the utmost consequence that the bar shall be as free from vibration as possible, while lost motion, or looseness from wear, is especially to be avoided.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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