The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 49
inproportion to the tenacity of the ground; this is pressed on by acylinder of water equal to its diameter, the axis of which is itsdepth, and the water again bears the weight of a column of air ofthe diameter of the cylinder. The comparative masses of groundwhich must be removed in dragging up the… … 1849.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 37 firm point of attachment for a buoy-chain, in every direction(fig. 5), and will oppose a powerful resistance even to a verticalstrain, which generally proves fatal to sinker moorings, depending(as they do) chiefly on their specific gravity. Fig.…
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