Minutes of proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution (1858)
Great Britain. Army. Royal Artillery Institution · Woolwich, Eng., : The Institution · leaf 837
95 SHORT NOTES ON PROFESSIONAL SUBJECTS. Now, as to the shape of shoe which best answers the purposes previously des¬ cribed, viz., lightness, durability, and requiring few nails. … By referring to the plates, which represent the ground and foot surfaces of the shoe, you will observe that the shoe is much wider at the toe than elsewhere ; this on the principle of an arch gives great strength, much greater than if the iron was thicker and the web narrower ; so that the shoe can…
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