Rudiments of the art of building : represented in five sections [...] for the use of architects, builders, draghtsmen, machinists, engineers and mechanics (1853)
Bullock, John · New York : Stringer & Townsend · leaf 29
—lliere aremany circumstances under which it becomes necessary to 24 RUDIMENTS OF THE lay the bottom dry before commencing operations. This isdone by inclosing the site of the foundation with a water-tight wall of timber, from within which the water can bepumped out by steam power or otherwise.… … required, the space between them being filled in with well-rammed fuddkj so as to form a solid water-tight mass.(See fig 6.) The great difficulties in the construction of a Fig. 6.
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