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Pneumatic caisson   /numˈætɪk kˈeɪsən/   Listen
Pneumatic caisson

noun
1.
Large watertight chamber used for construction under water.  Synonyms: caisson, cofferdam.






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"Pneumatic caisson" Quotes from Famous Books



... places, almost entirely through the fill and mud and was made in a cofferdam composed chiefly of sheet piles. As it was impossible to drive these piles across the old timber crib which formed the old dock front, the latter was cut through by a pneumatic caisson of wooden-stave construction, which formed part of one side of the cofferdam. At the river end of the cofferdam the rock was so deep that the concrete could not be carried down to its surface, and the tunnel section ...
— The New York Subway - Its Construction and Equipment • Anonymous



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