Road Making and Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors, and OthersC. Griffin, Limited, 1900 - 440 Seiten |
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... mile on the Patching System , and when Steam - rolled - Subsequent labour on Rolled Roads- Tools required for Surface Work - Horse Scraping and Sweeping Machines - Amount and Cost of Work performed with Hand and Horse Scraping Machines ...
... mile on the Patching System , and when Steam - rolled - Subsequent labour on Rolled Roads- Tools required for Surface Work - Horse Scraping and Sweeping Machines - Amount and Cost of Work performed with Hand and Horse Scraping Machines ...
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... mile of Road - Annual cost of repair- ing Roads per mile in the principal counties of England and Scotland ; Quantity of Metalling applied and cost per cubic yard - Government Grants for the Relief of Local Taxation - Congestion of ...
... mile of Road - Annual cost of repair- ing Roads per mile in the principal counties of England and Scotland ; Quantity of Metalling applied and cost per cubic yard - Government Grants for the Relief of Local Taxation - Congestion of ...
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... miles from Rome , were decorated on either side with temples and other superb edifices . Buildings were erected at regular distances alongside these roads at the public expense , and used as lodging - houses for changing horses to suit ...
... miles from Rome , were decorated on either side with temples and other superb edifices . Buildings were erected at regular distances alongside these roads at the public expense , and used as lodging - houses for changing horses to suit ...
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... miles . " † In Peru the Incas appear to have built great roads . That from Quito to Cuzco was between 1500 and 2000 miles in length and 20 feet wide ; it was situated at an elevation of over 12,000 feet above the sea level . This road ...
... miles . " † In Peru the Incas appear to have built great roads . That from Quito to Cuzco was between 1500 and 2000 miles in length and 20 feet wide ; it was situated at an elevation of over 12,000 feet above the sea level . This road ...
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... miles of roads , which were of the greatest value to the country . For the most part the width of these roads was 16 to 18 feet , and they had a pitched foundation covered with small stones and gravel . Many exciting scenes were enacted ...
... miles of roads , which were of the greatest value to the country . For the most part the width of these roads was 16 to 18 feet , and they had a pitched foundation covered with small stones and gravel . Many exciting scenes were enacted ...
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Seite 42 - CONTENTS. — Resolution and Composition of Forces — Work done by Machines and Living Agents— The Mechanical Powers : The Lever ; Derricks as Bent Levers — The Wheel and Axle : Windlass ; Ship's Capstan ; Crab Winch— Tackles : the "Old Man"— The Inclined Plane; the Screw— The Centre of Gravity of a Ship and Cargo — Relative Strength of Rope : Steel Wire, Manilla, Hemp, Coir — Derricks and Shears — Calculation of the Cross-breaking Strain of Fir Spar — Centre of Effort of Sails...
Seite 33 - TRAVERSE TABLES: Computed to Four Places of Decimals for every Minute of Angle up to 100 of Distance. For the Use of Surveyors and Engineers. BY RICHARD LLOYD GURDEN, Authorised Surveyor for the Governments of New South Wales and Victoria. ".* Published with the Concurrence of the Surveyors- General for New South Wales and Victoria. " Those who have experience in exact SURVEY-WORK will best know how to appreciate the enormous amount of labour represented by this valuable book.
Seite 72 - Public Analyst for the County of Devon, and Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone. AND M. WYNTER BLYTH, BA, B.Sc., FCS GENERAL CONTENTS. — History of Adulteration. — Legislation. — Apparatus. —
Seite 38 - is INVALUABLE. The NAVAL ARCHITECT will find brought togetner and ready to his hand, a mass of information which he would otherwise have to seek in an almost endless variety of publications, and some of which he would possibly not be able to obtain at all elsewhere."— Steamship.
Seite 59 - Professor of Mining and Director of the Otago University School of Mines ; late Director Thames School of Mines, and Geological Surveyor and Mining Geologist to the Government or New Zealand GENERAL CONTENTS.
Seite 73 - By C. AINSWORTH MITCHELL, BA, FIC, Mem. Council Soc. of Public Analysts. With numerous Illustrations and a coloured Plate.
Seite 44 - The little book will be found EXCEEDINGLY HANDY by most officers and officials connected with shipping. . . . Mr. Walton's work will obtain LASTING SUCCESS, because of its unique fitness for those for whom it has been written." — Shipping World. " An EXCELLENT WORK, full of solid instruction and INVALUABLE to every officer of the Mercantile Marine who has his profession at heart."— Shipping.
Seite 70 - THIRD EDITION, Revised, Enlarged, and Re-issued. Price 6s. net. A SHORT MANUAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY. BY A. DUPRE, Ph.D.,- FRS, AND WILSON HAKE, Ph.D., FIO, FCS, Of the Westminster Hospital Medical School.
Seite 82 - A MANUAL OF DYEING; fOR THE USE OF PRACTICAL DYERS, MANUFACTURERS, STUDENTS, AND ALL INTERESTED IN THE ART OF DYEING. BY E.
Seite 82 - Properties, and Applications of the various substances described, and concise directions for their Commercial Valuation, and for the Detection of Adulterants. BY CHRISTOPHER RAWSON, FIC, FCS, Consulting Chemist to the Behar Indigo Planters' Association ; Co-Author of " A Manual of Dyeing ;