Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 218
were placed 5 ft. apart, on piles driven to the proper height, and tops cut to the bevel of the incline.On these timbers, and lengthwise of them, was a ribbon of 3-by-3-inch scantling. This was spiked tothe timbers, and had its upper surfaces adzed off to the width of half an inch. These ribbons…
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