Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 196
0 tons, and were thrown into thesea, in the direction set out for the breakwater, care being taken that the greater number were de-posited upon the outer slope. After a number of these large masses had been lowered a smallerclass of stones, quarry rubbish, rubble, and lime-screenings, were thrown… … BREAKWATER. Fig. 586 represents a form often givento the pavement of the glacis or sea slope of a breakwater.The stones should he of sufficient size to resist the action ofthe sea. BREAST. In mining, the face of coal-workings. BREASTS. The name given to the hushes connectedwith small shafts or…
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