The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 375
esirable if the engineer could be enabled, lo some extent at least,to disregard the prejudiced statements of otiicrs, and the vague impressionsleft by them on his own mind, and really to ascertain by direct experiment,what force, expressed in pounds per square foot, the sea actually exertsupon the… … represent a cast-iron cylinder, which is firmly bolted at the projectingflanges G to the rock where the experiments are wanted. This cylinderhas a flnn-e at D D. L L is a door, which is opened when the observa-tion is to be read ofl. A A is of iron, and forms a circular plate or disc,on which the…
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