Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 312
apparatus, and shall lay before our readersdrawings of the ingenious Jacquard machinery, invented by Messrs. Roberts, for punching the plates(See Jacquard Punching Machine.) The construction, when finished, is to consist of two tubular bridges, formed of wrought-iron plates,sach tube being for one… … Fig. 907 exhibits a transverse section of one of the tubes and the masonry of the pier, together withthe lifting apparatus. Fig. 908 is a side elevation of 19 feet in length of the tube, resting on themasonry, and the lifting apparatus. Fig. 909 is a section through 12 feet in length of the tube,…
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