An Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical, Band 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1847 - 1039 Seiten |
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... nearly choked up with sand ; the houses which rise from it , and contain upwards of 15,000 inhabitants , are built along the shore , and impart , as the traveller HEAVY SURF GOOD SCALE OF SEA MILE ོ 3 CABLES TRACES OF THE ANCIENT CITY ...
... nearly choked up with sand ; the houses which rise from it , and contain upwards of 15,000 inhabitants , are built along the shore , and impart , as the traveller HEAVY SURF GOOD SCALE OF SEA MILE ོ 3 CABLES TRACES OF THE ANCIENT CITY ...
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... nearly 200 feet in depth , and by it the workmen are said to have descended , after they had closed the lower end of the upper passage with the block of granite above described : they then descended to the lower passage , followed it to ...
... nearly 200 feet in depth , and by it the workmen are said to have descended , after they had closed the lower end of the upper passage with the block of granite above described : they then descended to the lower passage , followed it to ...
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... nearly a horizontal line . Immediately above , in the section of this portion of the pyramid , may be seen another passage , nearly horizontal at first in its direction , and afterwards inclining upwards : it however terminates at that ...
... nearly a horizontal line . Immediately above , in the section of this portion of the pyramid , may be seen another passage , nearly horizontal at first in its direction , and afterwards inclining upwards : it however terminates at that ...
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... nearly 700 years prior to the reign of Amunoph , which is 2020 years before our era . When blocks of stone , cut like truncated wedges , are so placed that they support each other by their mutual pressure , they constitute an arch in ...
... nearly 700 years prior to the reign of Amunoph , which is 2020 years before our era . When blocks of stone , cut like truncated wedges , are so placed that they support each other by their mutual pressure , they constitute an arch in ...
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... nearly in the centre ; intricate as they now are , they appear to have been set around the principal room at regular distances , whatever may have been their level or height , and the re- gularity with which the walls are built with ...
... nearly in the centre ; intricate as they now are , they appear to have been set around the principal room at regular distances , whatever may have been their level or height , and the re- gularity with which the walls are built with ...
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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.