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  • Tunnelling is one of several effects in quantum mechanics that defies explanation in terms of the “classical” physics that preceded it.

    The quantum phone « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • A division of Samsung that distributes mobile phone components to several handset manufacturers has now licensed the “Quantum Tunnelling Composite”.

    The quantum phone « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • In 1987, when I joined the Halcrow group of consulting engineers as a member of the then Hammersmith, London-based marketing and PR team, we were down the corridor from the Tunnels and Tunnelling department, and (in those pre-email days) used to get occasional wry internal memos with clippings from the Yellow Pages telephone directory reading [...]

    2009 May « pwcom 2.0 2009

  • In 1987, when I joined the Halcrow group of consulting engineers as a member of the then Hammersmith, London-based marketing and PR team, we were down the corridor from the Tunnels and Tunnelling department, and (in those pre-email days) used to get occasional wry internal memos with clippings from the Yellow Pages telephone directory reading [...]

    2009 May 08 « pwcom 2.0 2009

  • In 1987, when I joined the Halcrow group of consulting engineers as a member of the then Hammersmith, London-based marketing and PR team, we were down the corridor from the Tunnels and Tunnelling department, and (in those pre-email days) used to get occasional wry internal memos with clippings from the Yellow Pages telephone directory reading “Boring – see: Civil Engineers”.

    Twitter for boring professionals? « pwcom 2.0 2009

  • REUTERS/Parth Sanyal Delhi Metro Rail Corporation engineers have used the New Austrian Tunnelling Method on soft soil, which can be tricky as the soil has to be immediately cemented and strengthened to prevent collapse.

    Infrastructure in India 2010

  • Delhi Metro Rail Corporation engineers have used the New Austrian Tunnelling Method on soft soil, which can be tricky as the soil has to be immediately cemented and strengthened to prevent collapse.

    Infrastructure in India 2010

  • Barack Obama's "Dreams From My Father" is the third most requested book by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, behind the "Harry Potter" books, and, of course, number one, "Tunnelling For Dummies."

    CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2009 2009

  • Council of Tunnelling (SANCOT) in Midrand, north of Johannesburg,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The Royal Engineers 'Tunnelling Companies on the other hand, were employed for offensive work in blowing up the enemy.

    The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

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