The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 457
seems to be entirely unnecessary. The writer pursuing his object of acquiring, from actual experi-ment, a knowledge of the cost of excavating materials and formingembankments upon public works, early addressed himself to observethe effect produced by scoops, and the results of numerous… … 1841.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 417 1. That taking averagp earth (yielding readily to the plough,) atmean stages cf weather and seasons, a scoop load may be taken at onetenth of a cubic i/ard mcnsurcd in excavation. 2. That the time lost in loading, unloading, and all other ways…
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