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 575
ew American devices will now beattempted, leaving a comparison of their merits to those competent to make it, and to the test ofexperiment. The leading property in the three-part rail is, that the cap piece is the only part subject to renewal,and being but about one-third of the whole weight, must… … A, Fig. 3i>05, rivet.A, Fig. 3206, rivet.B B, core. C, stancheon-iron bolted to theside of the sleepers.
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