JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
This is a beast, and the beast was a tunnel digger. This image is from the article “Le Creusement Mechanique des Tunnels” and is captioned “Vue de face de la machine creuser les tunnels”, with “creuser” meaning to dig, and the entire thing meaning, simply, “front of the tunnel digger”, though it sounds much better in French. It appears in Cosmos, Revue des Science et de Leurs Applications, which was published in the weekly issue for 26 November 1910. This is the only science journal/magazine with a cover illustration featuring the Creator of the Universe.
What a wonderful thing this machine was, though right after I think of how many backs of laborers it saved, I am moved immediately to what an engineer would do if the machine got stuck.
