Notes and sketches of an architect taken during a journey in the northwest of Europe; (1877)
Narjoux, Félix, Peto, John Frederick, 1854-1907 · Boston, J. R. Osgood · leaf 127
AND. quence of the arrangement adopted (Fig. 74). On the axis ofthe central piles rise two vertical supports, on the top of whichare placed two horizontal beams, corresponding in weight anddimensions with the lower transverse portions of the gangway.These two parts, thus disposed, keep themselves… … Fig. 74. — A Movable Bridge at Amsterdam. the bridge, and allow it to fall again gently as soon as the addi-tional weight is removed. The markets of Amsterdam are not, in all respects, so wellarranged as ours. The new market is dark and badly ventilated;its ground-plan, a square each of whose sides…
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