| Henri Maus' Chalk | |
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Origin |
Henri Maus |
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Type |
Chalk |
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Effects |
Creates tunnels. |
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Downsides |
May cause structural instability. |
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Activation |
Drawing a circle. |
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Collected by |
Morgan Galen |
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Section |
Davon-982D |
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Aisle |
2339-2938-9383784 |
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Shelf |
44320-2989933 |
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Date of Collection |
December 19th, 1901 |
| [Source] | |
Origin[]
Michel Henri Joseph Maus (1808–1893) was a Belgian engineer, the inventor of the first tunnel boring machine.
In 1845 Maus was recruited by King Charles Albert of Sardinia to assist in designing a line running from Turin south-eastwards to Genoa on the Mediterranean coast and north-westwards to Chambéry in Savoy. The stretch between Turin and Chambéry required construction of a 12.8-kilometre railway tunnel through the Alps, longer than any existing tunnel, which with the available tunneling techniques would have taken over 30 years to build. In response to this problem, Maus invented a hydraulically powered tunneling machine. The railway between Turin and Genoa was completed in November 1853, but work on the line between Turin and Chambéry was suspended until after the Second Italian War of Independence, when Savoy was ceded to France and the project was resumed under the leadership of Germain Sommeiller. On 17 September 1871 the first train traveled through the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.
A piece of blackboard chalk used frequently by Maus, became imbued with the ability to create tunnels.
Effects[]
Drawing a circle around a object will cause the material inside the chalk circle to eat away, creating a passageway. Works on nearly any material but can devastating effects on the structural integrity of the object that has been cut through. Cannot work on energy force fields as the material has to actually be able to be drawn on.
Collection[]
Collected by Morgan Galen on December 19th, 1901.