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 41
ches deep, with 2-inch treenails of white oak. These nails are sometimes putnearer together, and the ties likewise. The planking is of white pine. When the timber piers hadreached a certain height, the piers K K, of four compartments, were put down, two of which, tbe nearest tolow water, were… … Boali.— One inch=20 feet. One inch=8 feet. AQUEDUCT, CKOTON. 39 inches at the smaller eud, and 6 feet apart from centre to centre ; the treenails of the pquared timber thaBame. The uppermost of them are made of elm and white oak, treenailed every 3 feet, 30 inches deep,2J inches in diameter. The…
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