Mechanical movements, powers and devices; a treatise describing mechanical movements and devices used in construcive and operative mechinery and the mechanical arts, being practically a mechanical dictionary (1917)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York : The Norman W. Henley publishing co. · leaf 221
NE DRY-DOCK, intowhich vessels are floated and a watergate closed, when, by pumping the waterout, the vessel settles upon bearingblocks, and is shored from the side walls. wi^aiiiiWrtJ:ifUiiiJirtmrir 817. FLOATING DRY-DOCK, inwhich the lifting power is derived fromthe displacement of the water in…
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