Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 42
semer steamer and barge, 424 and 366 feet long respectively. The Bessemer fleet consists of ten steamers and eleven barges, and the carrying capacity of the fleet for one season, between eight and nine months, is over 1,500,000 tons. At one o'clock on the second day the steamer and consort would… … Fig. 21. plant. The seventh day at one o'clock the 9000 tons of ore would have been taken from the holds of the vessels and loaded into 180 of the 50-ton steel cars, of which the Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Erie has 600 and is building 400 more. On the morning of the eighth day these cars would be…
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