An Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical, Band 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, 1847 - 1039 Seiten |
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... pieces . Brick arches seem the first upon record ; here the opening is gathered over by three stones set in the or- dinary Egyptian manner , and the arch in question , turned over them , bears no weight , but acts simply as a covering ...
... pieces . Brick arches seem the first upon record ; here the opening is gathered over by three stones set in the or- dinary Egyptian manner , and the arch in question , turned over them , bears no weight , but acts simply as a covering ...
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... pieces of broken pot- tery and stone , and vary in size ; they are in length from 13 to 15 inches , and in thick- ness from 3 to 7 inches . This pyramid had been cased with stone from the Mokattam quarries : its original base measured ...
... pieces of broken pot- tery and stone , and vary in size ; they are in length from 13 to 15 inches , and in thick- ness from 3 to 7 inches . This pyramid had been cased with stone from the Mokattam quarries : its original base measured ...
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... piece , having a lid of the same material . Many skeletons without coffins or sarcophagi were also found these bodies ... pieces of bronze , which resembled the heads of hatchets . There were several inscriptions to the local divinities ...
... piece , having a lid of the same material . Many skeletons without coffins or sarcophagi were also found these bodies ... pieces of bronze , which resembled the heads of hatchets . There were several inscriptions to the local divinities ...
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... pieces , and before it could be again set up , it was necessary to cut off from the larger end between 2 and 3 feet , so that the length of the shaft is abridged of that quantity , and now only measures 105 feet 6 inches . The breadth ...
... pieces , and before it could be again set up , it was necessary to cut off from the larger end between 2 and 3 feet , so that the length of the shaft is abridged of that quantity , and now only measures 105 feet 6 inches . The breadth ...
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... pieces . Sallustiano della Trinita di Monte has hieroglyphics , and was placed in its present position in 1789 : its height is 43 feet 6 inches ; it has been much broken , and is joined together in an imperfect manner . Monte Citorio ...
... pieces . Sallustiano della Trinita di Monte has hieroglyphics , and was placed in its present position in 1789 : its height is 43 feet 6 inches ; it has been much broken , and is joined together in an imperfect manner . Monte Citorio ...
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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.