The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 206
a cast-iron bar, i. e. anupright laid flat, and not perforated, into which they could berabbeted. Where sheds or houses of any kind were erectedwith these walls, the uprights might be fastened to the blocksof stone by three eyes cast in a bottom flanch, or in threelugs (ears), through each of which… … 50 r^ O be all that would be necessary, as controlling the motion ofthe post in the only direction possible, viz. perpendicular tothe plane of the wall. This is the way in which railway chainsare fastened down, and it is an exceedingly effective and cheapmode. Two striking applications of such…
