Sentence examples for compressed air drill from inspiring English sources

By Edward Mrs. Friendly and James Thurber The New Yorker, September 7, 1929 P. 17 Querulous executive in ill temper because of a compressed air drill outside his window, instructs secretary to tell visitor to go to hell, but adds, "Dont antagonize him".

The way the drill works is compressed air -- an air turbine engine, if you will (the same process that starts most engines in commercial airliners, etc).

The problem of removing the cuttings from horizontal drill holes was eventually solved by the invention of the hollow drill with an air channel for blowing compressed air into the bottom of the hole.

In each method, compressed air, natural gas or nitrogen is injected into the downhole drilling fluid.

Force from compressed air is used to operate numerous tools and instruments, including rock drills, train brake systems, riveters, forging presses, paint sprayers, and atomizers.

The driving of two particular tunnels, the Mont Cenis (Fréjus) tunnel, between France and Italy, and the Hoosac tunnel, in Massachusetts, U.S. both driven during the 1850s and '60s produced a great number of innovations in rock-drilling equipment, most notably the compressed-air drill.

The ingredients are compressed air and water.

Another large storage option is compressed air.

Pneumatic systems communicate by means of compressed air.

Such tanks typically contain compressed air, not solely oxygen.

Rather than carbon dioxide, many guns now use compressed air.