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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1061376" data-attributes="member: 38206"><p><strong>On this day, 1 Dec 1990, Chunnel makes breakthrough</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Shortly after 11 a.m. on December 1, 1990, 132 feet below the English Channel, workers drill an opening the</strong></p><p> <strong>size of a car through a wall of rock. This was no ordinary hole--it connected the two ends of an underwater</strong></p><p> <strong>tunnel linking Great Britain with the European mainland for the first time in more than 8,000 years.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Over the next four years, nearly 13,000 workers dug 95 miles of tunnels at an average depth of 150</strong></p><p> <strong>feet (45 meters) below sea level.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p> <strong>Eight million cubic meters of soil were removed, at a rate of some 2,400 tons per hour.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p> <strong>The completed Chunnel would have three interconnected tubes, including one rail track in each</strong></p><p> <strong>direction and one service tunnel. The price? A whopping $15 billion. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>After workers drilled that final hole on December 1, 1990, they exchanged French and British flags</strong></p><p> <strong>and toasted each other with champagne. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="texan, post: 1061376, member: 38206"] [B]On this day, 1 Dec 1990, Chunnel makes breakthrough Shortly after 11 a.m. on December 1, 1990, 132 feet below the English Channel, workers drill an opening the size of a car through a wall of rock. This was no ordinary hole--it connected the two ends of an underwater tunnel linking Great Britain with the European mainland for the first time in more than 8,000 years. Over the next four years, nearly 13,000 workers dug 95 miles of tunnels at an average depth of 150 feet (45 meters) below sea level. Eight million cubic meters of soil were removed, at a rate of some 2,400 tons per hour. The completed Chunnel would have three interconnected tubes, including one rail track in each direction and one service tunnel. The price? A whopping $15 billion. After workers drilled that final hole on December 1, 1990, they exchanged French and British flags and toasted each other with champagne. [/B] [/QUOTE]
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