 | 1846 - 544 páginas
...structure, are suspended next to the trunk, one on each side ; each of these two cables is exactly 7 inches in diameter, perfectly solid and compact, and constructed in one piece from shore to shore, 1175 feet long; it is composed of 1900 wires of £th inch thickness, which are laid parallel... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - 1846 - 378 páginas
...structure, are suspended next to the trunk, one on each side. Each of these two cables is exactly 7 inches in diameter, perfectly solid and compact, and constructed in one piece from shore to shore, 1 175 feet long ; it is composed of 1900 wires of | inch diameter, which are laid parallel to... | |
 | William Laxton - 1846 - 456 páginas
...structure, are suspended next to the trunk, one on each side ; each of these two cables is exactly 7 inches in diameter, perfectly solid and compact, and constructed in one piece from shore to shore, 1,175 feet long; it is composed of 1,900 wires of J(h inch thickness, which are laid parallel... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1846 - 536 páginas
...structure, are suspended next to the trunk, one on each side ; each of these two cables is exactly 7 inches in diameter, perfectly solid and compact, and constructed in one piece from shore to shore, 1175 feet long; it is composed of 1900 wires of ¿th inch thickness, which are laid parallel... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - 1846 - 380 páginas
...structure, are suspended next to the trunk, one on each side. Each of these two cables is exactly 7 inches in diameter, perfectly solid and compact, and constructed in one piece from snore to shore, 1 175 feet long ; it is composed of 1900 wires of j inch diameter, which are laid parallel... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 1070 páginas
...rests on the cable. This cable ( of which there are two, one on each side of the trunk) is 7 inches in diameter, perfectly solid and compact, and constructed in one piece from shorf shore of the Ohio, 1175 feet long ; it icomposed of 1900 wires, } of an inch thick, aid parallel,... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - 1852 - 420 páginas
...structure, are suspended next to the trunk, one on each side. Each of these two cables is exactly 7 inches in diameter, perfectly solid and compact, and constructed in one piece from shore to shore, 1 175 feet long ; it is composed of 1900 wires of | inch diameter, which are laid parallel to... | |
 | Dennis Hart Mahan - 1855 - 446 páginas
...structure, are suspended next to the trunk, one on each side. Each of these two cables is exactly 7 inches in diameter, perfectly solid and compact, and constructed in one piece from shore to shore, 1 175 feet long ; it is composed of 1900 wires of j inch diameter, which are laid parallel to... | |
 | George Drysdale Dempsey - 1865 - 284 páginas
...over the Alleghany river at Pittsburgh. This aqueduct consists of seven spans of 160 ft. each, from centre to centre of pier. On the piers are pyramids...compact and constructed in one piece from shore to shore, 1175 ft. long, of 1900 wires of | in. thickness. Each wire is varnished separately, and the... | |
 | George Drysdale Dempsey - 1867 - 274 páginas
...Pittsburgh. This aqueduct consists of seven spans of 160 ft. each, from centre to centre of pier. Qn the piers are pyramids rising 5 ft. above the level...side. Each is 7 in. diameter, perfectly solid and compac* and constructed in one piece from shore to shore, 1175 ft. long, of 1900 wires of £ in. thickness.... | |
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... which passes over the top of the cap, and forms a gradual slope down to the railing on each side of the pyramid. The wire cables, which are the main support of the structure, are suspended next to the trunk, one on each side ; each of these two cables... 
