Journal of the Franklin Institute; devoted to science and the mechanic arts (1826)
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · Oxford, Eng. [etc.] Pergamon Press [etc.] · leaf 680
ontents of cuttings, and asks if it has ever been previously used.I may inform you that the same method has been used by me for someyears, but I never looked upon my application of it as a discovery, forI thought it would be sufficiently obvious to any person with a slightknowledge of mathematics,… … support the slopes of embankments. I was then engaged in formingreservoirs at Whittle Dean, for the water supply of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The walls of our grating tanks were of the form shown in thetwo figures : Fig. 1 being an elevation of the wall, and Fig. 2 a sectionof the same at e. * From the…
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