The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 262
n literature, architecture and sculptiue, the Greeks maygive lessons to the world. A new general chart of the banks of Newfoundland, formed by CaptainDavaud and the officers attached to his siurveying expedition in 1837, 1838,and 1839, m which numerous important errors of former charts are… … This apparatus is, as it were, a skeleton hand truck, consisting ofa pair of small wheels and axles, and a handle to drive them. The wheels A B are grooved after the manner of pulleys, so thatthey rest on a narrow or wide rail without shaking; they are fixed outhe axles C D, and are therefore…
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