Oahe mole

tunneling machine

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In tunnels and underground excavations: Machine-mined tunnels
The Oahe mole was partly inspired by work on a pilot tunnel in chalk started under the English Channel for which an air-powered rotary cutting arm, the Beaumont borer, had been invented. A 1947 coal-mining version followed, and in 1949 a coal saw was used to…
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