Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine (1869)
[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 84
were calculated at 0.45 of the total height, the maximum width has thus attained twenty feet. In building the viaduct of Lorient, on a foundation dry at low water, a single MELUN row of strutted piles, 3j feet apart, planked from top to bottom on both Eventually, in consequence of accidents^ sides,… … LORIENT between the planking, ten inches wide, was filled with silt pressed down. When the filling is so much reduced in thickness the planks are carefully joined, and the clay is mixed with moss or tow, or some times with fine gravel or pounded chalk. As water leaks through joints and con-…
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