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2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal Winner: Richard Robbins

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The 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering is presented to Richard Robbins for his imagination and skill in developing a hard-rock tunnel boring machine and its associated systems, resulting in a safe, economical, and efficient method for constructing tunnels. http://www.sciencentral.com/video/

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  • very interesting, and congrats to a seemingly very nice man.

    your father would be proud!!

  • I`ve been working as surveyer on several of these machine in Norway - amazing machines

  • very good idea...

    I thought they used industrial diamonds somewhere on the machines?

  • I didn't understand half of everything that was said in this video, but, man, this all sounds so very amazing!

  • wow the Channel Tunnel. such a new technology and so useful

  • Sure you do...  /sarcasm

  • first I mean !!!! :D

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