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with dovetails and forelocks. The ribs are covered with cast-iron plates, and the railing to the sides was of iron. Dimensions of some of the principal Cast-Iron Bridges. Date.Place.River.No. of Spans.Span. Feet.Rise. Feet.Weight. Tons.Architect. 1779CoalbrookdaleSevern1100.545378 5 English tons of 2,240 pounds.Darby & Wilkinson. 1795BuildwasSevern113027173.9 English tons of 2,240 pounds.Telford. 1796SunderlandWear.124030260 English tons of 2,240 pounds.Wilson. 1818Southwark c, Fig. 2701. Thames3240 And two side arches of 210 feet span each.245,308 English tons of 2,240 pounds.Rennie. 1836 Carrousel Scine318715.5Poloncean. 1859TarasconRhone204 416.6 1854St. PetersburgNeva15013.8 New BlackfriarsThames5185 And four spans of 155, 175, 175, 155 feet; roadway and sidewalk, 75 feet wide.17 Georgetown Aqueduct Two cast-iron pipes having a water-way of 42 inches, arched in form, carrying the roadway and forming conduits for the water supply of Washin
falo Cornish bull engines37.0 Boulton and Watt's non-expansive rotative engine, Albion Mills, London, 178625.8 Spring Garden, Philadelphia, 183224.6 United States Dry-Dock engine, Brooklyn22.4 Grand Junction Water-Works engines in 184946.8 Southwark and Vauxhall engines in 184969.6 Beardmore's exemplar Cornish engine83.4 Beardmore's duty of Cornish engines at London Water-Works56.25 Fowey Consols 50-inch cylinder-engine of 103-horse power, experimented on by Mr. Wicksteed, and worked atengine ; draining-engine ; pumping-engine. Cost of raising Water by Steam-Power. Gallons.Hight in feet.Cost.Coal per 2,240 lbs. East London Water-Works1,000,000100$3.00$2.52 Liverpool1,000,0001004.08 Wolverhampton1,000,0001008.401.80 Southwark1,000,0001002.882.40 Grand Junction1,000,0001005.523.84 Of the pumps for mining purposes may be cited, (1) the common lift-pump, made on a scale proportionate to its work, but in no essential respects differing from that in ordinary use. It