The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 3Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American Compiling Department, 1903 |
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... built of brick , stone , or iron . Denver , Col. , and other western cities are in this class , a majority of their houses being of brick . Manufacture.- Scattered over almost every part of the United States and Canada are brick- yards ...
... built of brick , stone , or iron . Denver , Col. , and other western cities are in this class , a majority of their houses being of brick . Manufacture.- Scattered over almost every part of the United States and Canada are brick- yards ...
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... built with a capacity to exert pressures up to 45,000 pounds . A machine with two sets of plungers working against the mold - box , has a repressing capacity of 15,000 fine front bricks , or 20,000 street pavers per day . FIG . 6 ...
... built with a capacity to exert pressures up to 45,000 pounds . A machine with two sets of plungers working against the mold - box , has a repressing capacity of 15,000 fine front bricks , or 20,000 street pavers per day . FIG . 6 ...
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... built by or under Ancus Martius , and famous for its defense by Horatius Cocles . One or two of these bridges are still standing ; that called Ponte Fabricio having been built 62 B.C. One of the finest Roman examples was the bridge built ...
... built by or under Ancus Martius , and famous for its defense by Horatius Cocles . One or two of these bridges are still standing ; that called Ponte Fabricio having been built 62 B.C. One of the finest Roman examples was the bridge built ...
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... built in 860 , though the present work is much later . It originally spanned three water- courses , and is so steep that none but foot- passengers_can go over it . The longest old bridge in England was that over the Trent at Burton , in ...
... built in 860 , though the present work is much later . It originally spanned three water- courses , and is so steep that none but foot- passengers_can go over it . The longest old bridge in England was that over the Trent at Burton , in ...
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... built on each side with houses like a regular street till 1756-8 . In 1831 it was alto- gether removed , the present bridge , which had been begun in 1824 , having then been finished . It consists of five elliptical arches , of which ...
... built on each side with houses like a regular street till 1756-8 . In 1831 it was alto- gether removed , the present bridge , which had been begun in 1824 , having then been finished . It consists of five elliptical arches , of which ...
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