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 384
atest resistance to be overcome is equal only to the pressure of a column of water equal in height tothe line AB, (5 feet;) half «of this, or Ax = 2J feet, will be the average resistance during the wholeoperation. Therefore, the power required to remove the water from the floating dock by a… … 382 DOCKING SHIPS. lifting or forcing pumps be employed fo pump the water up, and discharge it over the sides, then, 0/course, 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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