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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 4 4 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
Among the early European canals may be mentioned the canal through the Pontine Marshes, made 162 B. C.; and the Fossa Phillistina and Carbonania, dug by the Etruscans, and which derived their water from the Padus, now the Po. Caius Marius, 51 B. C., constructed the Fossa Marina between Arles and Fos, a haven on the Mediterranean. Lucius Verus undertook to unite the Saone and Moselle, and also to unite the Mediterranean and the German Ocean by means of the Rhone, Saone, Moselle, and Rhine. His death prevented the execution of the project. The great object of the Romans was to increase the facility of transportation, the great economical agent of civilization. Their land and water ways were the arteries and veins of commerce, and the ligatures which bound the provinces to the metropolis and the state. The Rhine had in early Roman times but two outlets; Virgil calls it bicornis, and Tacitus says that the largest of these branches, that nearest to Gaul, is called Vahal
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
e is a truss bridge over the Avon in England, the center resting on a cluster of screw-piles. Dimensions of some of the principal Wrought-Iron Bridges. Date.Place.River.No of Spans.Widest Arch.Character.Architect. Span.Rise. Ft In.Ft In. 1850 Britannia See tubular bridge.Menai Straits4458 329 3TubularStephenson. 1860PlymouthHamoaze433 630 6TubularBrunel. 1855BoyneFoyle25032 6Lattice.McNeil. 1858Montreal See tubular bridge.St. Lawrence33031 8TubularStephenson. 1867CologneRhine31331Lattice. 1861DirschanVistula39840Lattice 1874St. Louis Two side arches of 497 feet each. See tubular-arch bridge.Mississippi351551 5Tubular arch Eads. 1886KuilinburgLeck9515 Clear span of main truss, 492 feet; also one span of 262 feet; seven of 187 feet each. See d, Fig. 2702.Level.LatticeMichaelis. Louisville Whole length, 5,294 feet; weight of iron, 8,723,000 pounds.Ohio29400LevelTruss The iron truss-girder bridge over the Tay in Scotland, about 1 1/4 miles west of
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
and a half days; and near Big Shanty 35 1/2 miles of permanent way and 455 feet of bridges, in thirteen days. The following are the dimensions of some of the best known timber bridges:— Widest Arch. Name.River.Place.Curve.Architect.Date. Span.Rise. Ft.Ft. In. ColopusSchuylkillPhiladelphia34020 0SegmentWernwag1813 PiscataquaPiscataquaNew Hampshire25027 4SegmentPalmer1794 BambergRegnitzGermany20817 4SegmentWiebeking1809 TrentonDelawarePennsylvania20032 0SegmentBurr1804 WrittenghenRhineSwitzerland19830 10SegmentGrubenmann1777 Pont LouisIserFreysingen15413 6SegmentWiebeking1809 Ellicott's MillsPatapscoMaryland15020 0LatticeUnknown1838 Erie RailwayPortageNew York (1,000 ft long)Trestle Foundry-barrow. Wood′en-frame Bar′row. One with an iron box, for foundry purposes. Wood-en-grav′ing. Wood-engraving, or the making of woodcuts, differs from plate-engraving in the fact that the design in the former is in cameo, while the latter is in intaglio. It is diffic