Sentence examples for tunneling from inspiring English sources

They dig their own tunnels, which are plugged by their disked tails that provide a purchase when tunneling.

All major ancient civilizations developed tunneling methods.

Tunneling under rivers was considered impossible until the protective shield was developed in England by Marc Brunel, a French émigré engineer.

By tunneling beneath Mount Macdonald, the transit of the Selkirks was flattened to just under 1 percent.

Thus, the alpha particles, which seem to be tunneling through an impenetrable barrier, really penetrate it as a natural consequence of their wave properties.

The lifetime of the nucleus is a measure of the probability of tunneling through the barrier the shorter the lifetime, the higher the probability.

Under most conditions, tunneling causes a transfer of the ground load by arching to sides of the opening, termed the ground-arch effect (Figure 1, top).

Skipping the details of the picture, the proposed trigger mechanism refers to tunneling processes of two-state quasi-particles, resulting in state collapses.

Despite frustrations, the Hoosac Tunnel contributed notable advances in tunneling, including one of the first uses of dynamite, the first use of electric firing of explosives, and the introduction of power drills, initially steam and later air, from which there ultimately developed a compressed-air industry.

Though only 4.75 miles (7.6 km) long, the tunnel took 24 years (1851 75) to complete, partly because of slow and laborious rock-tunneling techniques in use when construction began, and partly owing to financial and political difficulties.

Later he was an engineer for the deep-tunneling "tube" system extensively adopted for London electric railways.