The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... weight - the whole machine being about 3,000 lbs . , and the area , or surface spread out to support it , 4,500 square feet in the two wings , and 1500 feet in the tail ; making , altogether , 6,000 square feet . But he has taken no ...
... weight - the whole machine being about 3,000 lbs . , and the area , or surface spread out to support it , 4,500 square feet in the two wings , and 1500 feet in the tail ; making , altogether , 6,000 square feet . But he has taken no ...
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... board of 190 tons dead weight , was upwards of six knots per hour : close - hauled , and reduced to her fore and aft canvas , on applying the screw her speed was raised from three knots to seven and MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 11.
... board of 190 tons dead weight , was upwards of six knots per hour : close - hauled , and reduced to her fore and aft canvas , on applying the screw her speed was raised from three knots to seven and MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 11.
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... weight of metal was better distributed , and the practical experiments fully bore out the theory . Some curious speci- mens of solid axles which had borne a great number of blows before breaking , were exhibited by the Patent Axle ...
... weight of metal was better distributed , and the practical experiments fully bore out the theory . Some curious speci- mens of solid axles which had borne a great number of blows before breaking , were exhibited by the Patent Axle ...
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... weight of 60 tons , two men , or rather a boy and a man , can move them easily . These gates open to the general basin communicating with the Thames . The dock itself is filled by the river tide , or by a steam - engine , working with ...
... weight of 60 tons , two men , or rather a boy and a man , can move them easily . These gates open to the general basin communicating with the Thames . The dock itself is filled by the river tide , or by a steam - engine , working with ...
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... weight . The engineers , amongst other means to remedy this defect , enclosed the whole of the lower portion of the ... weight of the bridge will be removed , and the consequent pressure of the piers on the clay - bed of the river ...
... weight . The engineers , amongst other means to remedy this defect , enclosed the whole of the lower portion of the ... weight of the bridge will be removed , and the consequent pressure of the piers on the clay - bed of the river ...
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