Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 348
42 feet radius,of which two are fixed to the outside girders of each leaf, and are gearedinto cogs moved by eight large hydraulic engines, with six accumulators,into which water is pumped by two engines, each of 360 horse-power. The total length of the bridge, including the approaches, is just half… … Fig. iii,7/.—Sketch. JBROOKL YN BRIDGE. 303 THE GREAT BROOKE YN BRIDGE. nPHE Clifton Bridge at Niagaui Falls, which for a time had thedistinc--*• tion of being the longest in span of any suspension bridge in the world,has been fully described in previous pages ; but more recently this bridgehas…
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