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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.) 14 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 4 0 Browse Search
Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army. 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 3 1 Browse Search
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 2 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ormed of iron chains supporting loops on which planking is laid, are mentioned by Hooker in his Himalaya journals. One crossed the Mywa, a western affluent of the Tambur in Nepal; another the Newa, in which the chains were clamped to the rocks on either shore, and the suspended loops occurred at intervals of 8 or 10 feet. Suspension-bridges in Europe are mentioned by Scamozzis in his Del idea Archi, 1615. The principles of their construction were laid down by Bernouilli (born at Bale, Switzerland, 1654; died in same city, 1705). The first chain-bridge in England appears to have been laid across the river Tees about the year 1741; its length was 70 feet, and breadth rather more than two; it was a mere foot-bridge, and seems to have been a very rude affair. Finlay constructed a chain-bridge in this country in 1796, over Jacob's Creek, between Uniontown and Greensburg, Pa., taking out a patent in 1801; in 1811 eight bridges had been built on his plan, which does not seem, howe
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ubic yards per lineal foot; the cutting out being wide enough to timber in. Price up to $6 for hard rock. The estimated cost for the proposed Jones's-fall tunnel, Baltimore, is $2 per cubic yard. $145 per lineal foot. The cost of the Mont Cenis tunnel was $300 per lineal foot. The Kilsby double track in England, through difficult quicksands, was $262 per lineal foot. Terre Noire, on the Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean Railway, cost $50 per foot. The Haeunstein tunnel, between Basle and Berne, Switzerland, cost $133 per lineal foot. The Hoosac, through mica slate and quartz, with a working shaft 1,000 feet in depth, $300 per lineal foot. The entire cost of the Fourth Avenue underground railway of New York, $6,395,070, 4 1/2 miles, $205 per lineal foot. 2. level, adit, or drift in a mine. 3. A funnel. 4. A chimney or flue. Tun′nel-bor′er. （Civil Engineering.) A ram, operated by compressed air, for making excavations through rock. It is said that<