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 377
ought to the level of thepermanent way. The means bywhich the apparatus is workedare ingenious, and constitute thechief merit of the application. The dimensions of the dock areabout 165 feet long internally,and 35 feet wide. The distancefrom the outside of one mainwayto the outside of the other is… … DOCKING SHIPS. We shall first describe the construction of the two parallel mainways. These ways (B B, Figs,1060 to 1069) are placed 35 feet apart, and each consists of a row of double piles A A, with everypair placed obliquely; thus, A. The piles are of the best Georgia pine, 56 feet long and 20…
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