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 390
test resistance to be overcome is equal only to the pressure of a column of water equal in height tothe line A B, (5 feet;) half of this, or A x — 2£ feet, will be the average resistance during the wholeoperation. Therefore, the power required to remove the water from the floating dock by a… … 3S2 DOCKING SHIPS. lifting or forcing pumps be employed to pump the water up, and discharge it over the sides, then, ofcourse, the same power will be required for Barrons dock as for the fixed dock. Commodore Barrons dock was proposed to be moored in a slip between two wharves or breakwaters,to…
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