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 778
t six inches, and height twenty-five feet. The sides A A are madeof No. 16 iron-plate, (Birmingham wire-gage,) weighing 2-J pounds to the square foot, riveted together;the top B of plate weighing about three pounds to the square foot, or No. 14 gage. C C, etc., are rings of thy,ee-inch T iron,… … dd are rings of bar-iron, about half an inch thick and three inches deep, fastened to the top by clips,which are riveted; these rings are placed about six feet apart, and strengthened further by diagonalbars, from one to another, breaking-joint. E are stays formed of wrought-iron pipe, about 1\…
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