An Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical, Band 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1847 - 1039 Seiten |
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... distance from the shore is the island of Said , once connected by a mole with the main land , and forming a second well - sheltered harbour . The Roman bay is commanded by a modern battery , and behind this Turkish fortress are traces ...
... distance from the shore is the island of Said , once connected by a mole with the main land , and forming a second well - sheltered harbour . The Roman bay is commanded by a modern battery , and behind this Turkish fortress are traces ...
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... distance of upwards of fifteen hundred miles . Spain , Sicily , and all the islands of the Mediter- ranean also belonged to them . The Carthaginians , who disputed the empire of the world with the Romans for a hundred and eighteen years ...
... distance of upwards of fifteen hundred miles . Spain , Sicily , and all the islands of the Mediter- ranean also belonged to them . The Carthaginians , who disputed the empire of the world with the Romans for a hundred and eighteen years ...
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... distance , the great reservoirs and aqueduct , near the western wall of the city . There are more than twenty of these water - cisterns , each a hundred feet in length , and thirty in breadth , and the water was conveyed to them through ...
... distance , the great reservoirs and aqueduct , near the western wall of the city . There are more than twenty of these water - cisterns , each a hundred feet in length , and thirty in breadth , and the water was conveyed to them through ...
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... distance of 52 feet from the pyramid , and 11 feet to the westward of the centre , is the entrance by means of a sunk pit ; here commences a hori- zontal passage , 120 feet in length ; this afterwards takes a winding di- rection , and ...
... distance of 52 feet from the pyramid , and 11 feet to the westward of the centre , is the entrance by means of a sunk pit ; here commences a hori- zontal passage , 120 feet in length ; this afterwards takes a winding di- rection , and ...
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... distance from the eastern extremity of the Isle of Pharos , which was long considered one of the wonders of the world , and which has given a name to all others . A mole united the rock with the mainland , and Sostratus of Cnidos , who ...
... distance from the eastern extremity of the Isle of Pharos , which was long considered one of the wonders of the world , and which has given a name to all others . A mole united the rock with the mainland , and Sostratus of Cnidos , who ...
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Seite 582 - I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it three quarters full of water, stopping and screwing up the broken end, as also the touch-hole, and, making a constant fire under it, within twenty-four hours it burst, and made a great crack ; so that having a way to make my vessels, so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vessel of water,...
Seite 1 - Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships ; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
Seite 534 - and C. shall be Three, to be our Justices, to survey the ' said Walls, Streams, Ditches, Banks, Gutters, Sewers, ' Gotes, Calcies, Bridges, Trenches, Mills, Mill-dams, ' Flood-gates, Ponds, Locks, Hebbing- wears, and other Im...
Seite vi - A society for the general advancement of Mechanical Science, and more particularly for promoting the acquisition of that species of knowledge which constitutes the profession of a Civil Engineer, being the art of directing the great sources of power in Nature for the use and convenience of man...
Seite 582 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Seite 552 - ... ounces of carbonic acid, would form a solution not sensibly different, in ordinary use, from the filtered water of the Thames, in the average state of that river.
Seite 76 - Powers, are certain simple instruments, commonly employed for raising greater weights, or overcoming greater resistances, than could be effected by the natural strength without them. These are usually accounted six in number, viz. the Lever, the Wheel and Axle, the Pulley, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, and the Screw.
Seite 540 - ... full of black troops of unclean spirits, which crept in under the door, as also at chinks and holes, and coming in, both out of the sky and from the earth, filled the air as it were with dark clouds.
Seite 583 - A Description and Draught of a new-invented Machine, for carrying Vessels or Ships out of, or into, any Harbour, Port, or River, against Wind and Tide, or in a calm.
Seite 544 - The depth of the trench," he adds, "in some places descended full thirty feet, if not more, whereas in other places it required a sprightful art again to mount it over a valley in a trough, between a couple of hills, and the trough all the while borne up by wooden arches, some of them fixed in the ground very deep, and rising in height above twenty-three feet.