The Romance of Modern Engineering: Containing Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of the Nile Dam, the Panama Canal, the Tower Bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Niagara Falls Power Co., Bermuda Floating Dock, Etc., Etc |
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Page 349 - On the confines toward Georgiue there is a fountain from which oil springs in great abundance, inasmuch as a hundred ship-loads might be taken from it at one time. This oil is not good to use with food, but is good to burn, and is also used to anoint camels that have the mange.
Page 233 - ... to the observatory. After first sighting back, a second point is given on the second table, and so on. These points are marked either temporarily in the roof of the heading by a short piece of cord hanging down, or permanently by a brass point held by a small steel cylinder, 8 inches long and 3 inches in diameter, embedded in concrete in the rock floor, and protected by a circular casting, also sunk in cement concrete, holding an iron cover resembling that of a small manhole. From time to time...
Page 12 - Ontario through machinery doing tnore good for the world than that great benefit which we now possess in the contemplation of the splendid scene which we have presented before us at the present time by the waterfall of Niagara.
Page 259 - The arrangements of the annular girder, rollers, <tc., are the same as those for the heaviest swing-bridges already described, but half the weight of the movable portion of the aqueduct is taken by a central hydraulic press, 4 feet 9£ inches in diameter and 2 feet 3 inches deep, which acts as the pivot and is free to turn ; a hydraulic buffer and locking bolts are also provided. The power is obtained from the adjacent hydraulic station, which is also used for the road swing-bridge ; both are worked...
Page 278 - Colombia, upon such terms as he might deem reasonable, perpetual control of a strip of land, not less than six miles in width, extending from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, with jurisdiction over said strip; and to proceed, as soon as these rights were acquired, to construct a canal.
Page 259 - The junctions just described are not at right angles to the trough, but are slightly diagonal, so as to allow sufficient clearance for moving the trough. After it has been again closed, the wedge-piece is dropped on to its seating, being of the same taper as the ends of the trough and aqueduct. The arrangements of the annular girder, rollers...
Page 160 - Dover and Ostend to Cologne), Cologne, Berlin, Alexandrovo, Warsaw, Moscow, Tula, Samara, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Stretensk, Mukden, Port Arthur, and the total length of this journey (excluding the Atlantic) about 7300 miles, of which 297 miles will be in France, 99 miles in Belgium, 660 miles in Germany, 2,310 miles in European Russia, and about 4000 in Asiatic Russia. These are the official figures.
Page 274 - ... enough bureaucratic work, and there are enough officers on the Isthmus to furnish at least one dozen first-class republics with officials for all their departments. The expenditure has been something simply colossal.
Page 20 - ... education, such a training as will enable them to turn their natural abilities to account for the advancement of science and the improvement of its applications to industry. Under the latter point of view, the instruction given in the Normal School of Science will lead up to the special technical training of the Central Institute of the Guilds of the City of London. Under the...
Page 258 - The new aqueduct has two movable spans of 90 feet each, with a waterway 19 feet wide and 6 feet in depth ; it works on a central pier 400 feet long and 50 feet wide, which carries also the adjacent road bridge. The pier is mainly built of cement concrete with brickwork and granite in the part that takes the weight of the aqueduct, 1400 tons, including the water which is always in the iron trough through which the barges pass. The sides of the trough are 1 foot above the water-level ; it is carried...