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Boring

Here are entered works on the operation of cutting holes in earth or rocks, in order to determine the nature of the strata penetrated, or to furnish an outlet for water, oil, or gas. Works on the drilling and boring of holes in metal, wood, and other materials, as carried on in workshops, etc., for construction or manufacturing purposes are entered under Drilling and boring.

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• Hydraulic engineering
• Mining engineering

• Oil well drilling
• Underwater drilling
• Water well drilling

• Diamond drilling
• Test boring
• Well-boring

• Cutting Experiments Using a Rotating Water Jet in a Borehole (Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations #8095, 1975), by G. A. Savanick, Thomas E. Ricketts, Peter D. Lohn, and Jacob N. Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Water Well Drilling With Cable Tools (South Milwaukee, WI: Bucyrus-Erie Co., 1958), by Raymond W. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stability, Failure, and Measurements of Boreholes and Other Circular Openings, by U. S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics (illustrated HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Oil Prospecting, Drilling and Extraction (c1914), by Forest John Swears Sur (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The Technology and the Alaskan Oil Context (OTA-E-394; 1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oil and Gas Technologies for the Arctic and Deepwater (OTA-O-270; 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dime Novels on Early Oil (Sierra Madre, CA: Stagecoach Press, 1951), by Jack D. Rittenhouse (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ocee McRae, Texas: A Novel of Passion, Petroleum and Politics in the Pecos River Valley (New York: Exposition Press, c1962), by Ira Lunan Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oil in the Sea: Inputs, Fates, and Effects (1985), by National Research Council Ocean Studies Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Coastal Effects of Offshore Energy Systems: An Assessment of Oil and Gas Systems, Deepwater Ports, and Nuclear Powerplants Off the Coasts of New Jersey and Delaware (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Coastal Effects of Offshore Energy Systems: An Assessment of Oil and Gas Systems, Deepwater Ports, and Nuclear Powerplants Off the Coasts of New Jersey and Delaware (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (2011), by United States National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling (PDF with commentary at govinfo.gov)

• Alternatives for Inspecting Outer Continental Shelf Operations (1990), by National Research Council Marine Board (illustrated HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Ocean Margin Drilling: A Technical Memorandum (NTIS order #PB80-198302; 1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Water Well Drilling With Cable Tools (South Milwaukee, WI: Bucyrus-Erie Co., 1958), by Raymond W. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Bachelor of Science Theses on Water Resources Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (Archives Series Report #6; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1959), by Gerald J. Giefer and Cynthia Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theses on Water Resources: Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, and University of Southern California (Archives Series Report #7; Berkeley: Water Resources Center, University of California, 1959), by Gerald J. Giefer, Lois Judd, and Cynthia Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Yangtze! Yangtze!, by Dai Qing, ed. by Patricia Adams and John Thibodeau (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Yangtze! Yangtze!, by Dai Qing, ed. by Patricia Adams and John Thibodeau (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Yangtze! Yangtze!, by Dai Qing, ed. by Patricia Adams and John Thibodeau (HTML at probeinternational.org)

• Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging of Navigational Facilities in Estuaries, by National Research Council Committee on Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging in Estuaries (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging of Navigational Facilities in Estuaries, by National Research Council Committee on Sedimentation Control to Reduce Maintenance Dredging in Estuaries (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Principles and Practice of Flow Meter Engineering (seventh edition; Foxboro, MA: The Foxboro Co., 1949), by L. K. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• Handbook of Steam Flow Measurement (second edition; Foxboro, MA: The Foxboro Co., 1936), by L. K. Spink (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Houille Blanche (in French) (full serial archives)

• Journal of the American Water Works Association (partial serial archives)
• Municipal and County Engineering (full serial archives)
• Municipal Engineering (1896-1918) (full serial archives)
• Paving and Municipal Engineering (full serial archives)

• Dredging Coastal Ports: An Assessment of the Issues (1985), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Safe Water from Every Tap: Improving Water Service to Small Communities (1997), by National Research Council Committee on Small Water Supply Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Infrastructure Investment in Indonesia: A Focus on Ports (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2019), ed. by C. F. Duffield, Felix Kin Peng Hui, and Sally Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Dredging Coastal Ports: An Assessment of the Issues (1985), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo", by B. F. Childs (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Marquette, Mackinac Island and the "Soo", by B. F. Childs (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• To Build a Canal: Sault Ste. Marie, 1853-1854 and After (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1981), by John N. Dickinson (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Pocket Guide for the Tourist and Traveller, Along the Line of the Canals, and the Interior Commerce of the State of New-York (New York: T. and J. Swords, 1824), by Horatio Gates Spafford
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Mighty Chain: A Guide to Canal Records in the New York State Archives, by New York State Archives and Records Administration
  • HTML at nysed.gov
  • text at nysed.gov

• Banner by the Wayside (New York: Random House, c1947), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels: Erie Canal (c1852), by Jacob Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Contaminated Sediments in Ports and Waterways: Cleanup Strategies and Technologies, by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Contaminated Sediments in Ports and Waterways: Cleanup Strategies and Technologies, by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health (New York: O. Judd and Co., 1867), by George E. Waring (page images at Cornell)
• Farm Drainage: The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles (New York: C. M. Saxton, Barker and Co., 1860), by Henry F. French (page images at Cornell)

• Performance of a Hydraulic Classifier Designed to Incorporate Four Hitherto Neglected Principles (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1945), by William Hawes Coghill, Glen Dale Coe, and I. L. Feld (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1885), by Aug. J. Bowie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Continuous Hydraulic Classification: Constitution of the Teeter Column Throughout Its Depth (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1946), by Glen Dale Coe, I. L. Feld, M. F. Williams, and William Hawes Coghill (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Assessment of Techniques for Removing Offshore Structures (1996), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Stream Reach Inventory and Channel Stability Evaluation: A Watershed Management Procedure (St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Region, 1975), by United States Forest Service Northern Region (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cutting Experiments Using a Rotating Water Jet in a Borehole (Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations #8095, 1975), by G. A. Savanick, Thomas E. Ricketts, Peter D. Lohn, and Jacob N. Frank (page images at HathiTrust)

• Source Book of Community Water Systems: Commercial, Institutional, Residential, Industrial Applications (High Point, NC: Technical Proceedings, c1960), by Joseph S. Ameen (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.