The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 278
floating pier, and aplatform connecting the two, which is hinged at one end to the per-manent way, and at the other rests on the barge or vessel, which risesand falls with the tide. For light traffic this erection is constructedalmost entirely of wood ; the permanent way, which in the drawingis… … VVV way. The roadway, which is of peculiar construction, is representedat fig. 1. Beams, a, are laid longitudinally and resting on the piles;at their extremities they are slightly curved upwards and strengthenedby means of tension-bars, or chains, b ; these chains are secured to acast iron cap on…
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