China moves the engineering boundaries. The world's largest device drills a 10 km tunnel

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At the heart of 1 of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in China, the most advanced tunnel device in the planet is presently working. Linghang, for that is what the TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) is called. She hollowed out a 10 km tunnel under the Yangtze River, the 3rd longest river in the world.