Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 298
e elevator, which sloped upwardsat an angle of 45 degrees towards thebank. They were then drawn up therails by an endless rope, and as eachtruck reached the end of the rails itsside fell open, the mud was shot outupon the bank, and the empty truckreturned by another set of rails to theplatform on… … A se:a_=i, Fig. 126.—Map of the 6uez CanaL SHIP CANALS. 257 was fed by half a dozen dredges, and thus the mud raised from the canalby several dredges was carted away without difficulty at one and thesame time. As these floating dredges were much easier to shift thanthose encumbered by the long…
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