The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 152
ly, and also upon a fallingtide. For this the lock has three pairs of gates, the outer pairbeing placed as close to the river as possible. The fact of a publicstreet here running parallel to the river, and the entailment of aswing bridge over the lock also prevented any great splaying outof the… … Ser of TUnd Fig. 15.—Proposed Graving Dock. Fig. 15.—With examples of the first class, viz., the dry orgraving docks, the great desideratum appears to be, to get themplaced at such an angle to the course of the tide, that ships maybe docked upon the flood with the greatest facility. There existsbut…
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