The Engineer

The Engineer

On the television screen it looked more serious than it wasso Muhlenhoff told himself, staring at it grimly. You get down more than a mile, and you're bound to have little technical problems. That's why deepsea oil wells were still there. Still, it did look kind of serious. The water driving in the pitted faults had the pressure of eighteen hundred meters behind it, and where it struck it did not splashit battered and destroyed. As Muhlenhoff watched, a bulkhead collapsed in an explosion of spray; the remote camera caught a tiny driblet of the scattering brine, and the picture in the screen fluttered and shrank, and came back with a wavering side-wise pulse. As he swept his hand through his snow-white crew cut and called the board to order a dispatch was handed to hima preliminary report from a quickly-dispatched company trouble-shooter team. He read it to the board, stone-faced. "Some vibration thingand seepage from the oil pool. Sloppy drilling!" He sneered. "Big deal! So a couple hundred meters of shaft have to be plugged and pumped. So six or eight compartments go pop. Since when did we start to believe the cack Research & Development hands out? Armor's armor. Sure it popswhen something makes it pop. If Atlantic oil was easy to get at, it wouldn't be here waiting for us now. Put a gang on the job. Find out what happened, make sure it doesn't happen again. Big deal!" ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67343
Author: Kornbluth, C. M. (Cyril M.)
Release Date: Feb 6, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Royal Publications, Inc
Publication Date: 1955
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Pohl, Frederik, 1919-2013

Illustrator: Engle, Robert, 1928-