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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.) 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
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adily into the water, when it was towed into position, and the masonry laid until it sunk squarely on the heads of the piles previously driven for its reception. Caissan. The modern or pneumatic caisson, which is sunk through quicksands or submerged earth or rock, is the invention of M. Triger, who contrived by the aid of air-pumps to keep the water expelled from the sheet-iron cylinders, which he sunk through quick sands in reaching the coal-measures in the vicinity of the river Loire, in France. The seams of coal in this district of France lie under a stratum of quicksand from 58 to 66 feet thick, and they had been found to be inaccessible by all the ordinary modes of mining previously practiced. Fig. 1021 illustrates the caisson of M. Triger, and shows the comparatively simple form which the apparatus assumed when used for sinking a simple shaft through a water-bearing stratum above the coal. Air is forced in through the pipe A to the working-chamber B, which has a man