Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 489
weight, and one man to attend to the driving of the pile, making five men for each pile, or 10 men fortwo piles. With the steam machine the ram is lifted four or five times in a minute, thereby the opera-tion of driving the pile is very short in comparison with the ordinary machine. The cost of the…
Mechanical engineering
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