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 715
s proper position, is sunk upon them, being kept in itsplace by a few piles left standing above the others, the water being kept out of the caisson by a kindof well constructed round each of these internal guide piles, which are built up into the masonry. Thismethod of building in caissons on pile… … dE&) r^n ^M&MA, V V V v A similar plan of foundation was adopted in the construction of three of the piers of the railroadbridge across the Connecticut, at Springfied, Mass.; but to give the greatest stability to the work, thebottom was previously dredged, the piles were then driven, and…
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