The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 50
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.… … The first trials were upon a comparatively small scale; but theirsuccess was so decisive, that the merits of the moorings were ac-knowledged, and their use soon became extended. The depth towhich these moorings have been screwed varies from 8 feet to18 feet; the former is deep enough where the soil…
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