Bridges and MenGrosset & Dunlap, 1966 - 343 pàgines |
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Pàgina 161
... Abutment was pushed to conclusion . Part of the aim of Eads's re- port had been to explain the difficulties involved in this abutment because of the sunken wreckage : Boomer had assiduously promoted the skeptical question : if Eads's ...
... Abutment was pushed to conclusion . Part of the aim of Eads's re- port had been to explain the difficulties involved in this abutment because of the sunken wreckage : Boomer had assiduously promoted the skeptical question : if Eads's ...
Pàgina 163
... Abutment to bedrock - at a depth under water far beyond those reached by Brunel and Audernt . Very little was known at the time of the effects of compressed air on human beings . Stopping off in New York long enough to explain his plan ...
... Abutment to bedrock - at a depth under water far beyond those reached by Brunel and Audernt . Very little was known at the time of the effects of compressed air on human beings . Stopping off in New York long enough to explain his plan ...
Pàgina 169
... Abutment when the caisson reached a depth of 56 feet ( 27 pounds pressure above atmosphere ) , reduced the watch to two hours at 32 pounds pressure and to one hour at 341⁄2 pounds . Only a few cases were reported . When the caisson ...
... Abutment when the caisson reached a depth of 56 feet ( 27 pounds pressure above atmosphere ) , reduced the watch to two hours at 32 pounds pressure and to one hour at 341⁄2 pounds . Only a few cases were reported . When the caisson ...
Continguts
The Engineer Vanishes from Europe but Appears in Asia | 3 |
Weird and Wonderful Appalling and Amazing Old London | 34 |
Out of the Middle Ages by the Rialto Bridge | 50 |
Copyright | |
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Abutment American Ammann anchorage army bedrock Bridge Company bridge engineering bridge-building bridge's British Brooklyn Bridge building built cables caisson canal cantilever Captain carried century Civil Engineers Colonel completed construction covered bridge cross deck DeLisio Eads's East famous feet Figure fire Firth Firth of Tay foundations four French Galloping Gertie George Henry High Girders hundred inches Island James Eads John Rennie John Roebling later loading locomotive London Bridge long-span Louis Bridge main span masonry Menai Menai Strait miles Mississippi modern named Niagara Othmar H Paris Perronet piers piles Pont Pont-Neuf pontoons problem rail railroad bridge Remagen Rennie Rialto river road roadway Robert Stephenson Roebling's semicircular shore side steel Steinman stone arch stood Strait stream structure suspension bridge suspension span Telford Thomas Bouch timber tion took tower traffic train truss tube tunnel Washington Roebling Wheeling wind wire York