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" ... by sixteen iron screws four and a half inches in diameter. This platform has several shores on its surface, which were brought to bear equally on the vessel's bottom, to prevent her from canting over on being raised out of the water. About thirty... "
Journal of the Franklin Institute - Page 355
by Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1849
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Sketch of the Civil Engineering of North America: Comprising Remarks on the ...

David Stevenson - 1838 - 370 pages
...New York. The vessel to he raised by this apparatus was floated over a platform of wood, sunk to the depth of about ten feet below the surface of the water, and suspended from a strongly built wooden frame-work by sixteen iron screws four and a half inches in...
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Sketch of the Civil Engineering of North America: Comprising Remarks on the ...

David Stevenson - 1838 - 366 pages
...New York. The vessel to be raised by this apparatus was floated over a platform of wood, sunk to the depth of about ten feet below the surface of the water, and suspended from a strongly built wooden frame-work by sixteen iron screws four and a half inches in...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 2

1840 - 550 pages
...New York. The vessel to be raised by this apparatus was floated over a platform of wood, sunk to the depth of about ten feet below the surface of the water, and suspended from a strongly built wooden frame-work by sixteen iron screws four and a half inches in...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 2

1840 - 556 pages
...Now York. The vessel to be raised by this apparatus was floated over a platform of wood, sunk to the depth of about ten feet below the surface of the water, and suspended from a strongly built wooden frame- work by sixteen iron screws four and a half inches in...
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Journal of the Franklin Institute

1843 - 884 pages
...of any approach to such a degree of temperature, or pressure, as might be dangerous. The Sub-marine Thermometer remains constantly at a depth of about...and in other deep seas, the deep water is said to be wanner than the shallow, it probably would there show, by mere inspection, the approach to shoals,...
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Nature and Art, Volume 1

1866 - 346 pages
...Jacques in the Rue de llivoli. A piece of very interesting solid Roman wall was discovered the other day, at a depth of about ten feet below the surface of the soil, in making the excavations for the new portion of the Rue Bonaparte in Paris. The workmen "had...
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Nature and art [ed. by F.B. Ward].

Francis Beckford Ward - 1866 - 600 pages
...Jacques in the Rue de Rivoli. A. piece of very interesting solid Roman wall was discovered the other day, at a depth of about ten feet below the surface of the soil, in making the excavations for the new portion of the Rue Bonaparte in Paris. The workmen had...
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The Two Hemispheres: A Popular Account of the Countries and Peoples of the World

George Goudie Chisholm - 1882 - 1020 pages
...Mareotis, which was laid under water by the British during the siege of Alexandria in 1801, and which lies at a depth of about ten feet below the surface of the Mediterranean. After being drained its bed will be freed from the saline incrustation remaining by...
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The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle

1901 - 690 pages
...finely molded marble block which once formed the lintel of a door, and was dug up in our excavations at a depth of about ten feet below the surface of the soil, the words, " Synagogue of the Hebrews." Under this very lintel St. Paul probably passed and repassed...
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History of New York Ship Yards

John Harrison Morrison - 1909 - 184 pages
...period: "The vessel to be raised by this apparatus was floated over a platform of wood sunk to the depth of about ten feet below the surface of the water, and suspended from a strongly built wooden frame work by 16 iron screws 4£ inches in diameter. This platform...
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