Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 385
cylinders gave way—a piece of iron weighing nearly a ton anda half having been forced out, which, after killing a man who was ascend-ing a rope ladder to the press, fell on the top of the tube 80 ft. below, andmade in it a deep indentation. The accident occasioned a considerabledelay in the… … Fig. 171.—Press for Raising the Tubes. beneath the ends of the vast tube as it ascended slabs of wood i in. thick,so that it was impossible for the tube to fall more than i in. It must bestated that as the tube was lifted each step, the masonry was built up frombelow, and then as the next lift…
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