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Van Nostrand's engineering magazine (1879)

[New York : D. Van Nostrand] · leaf 12

An illustration from Van Nostrand's engineering magazine, 1879, leaf 12
a, where coal is this weir, 50 feet in width. Tfee whole dearer, that the most striking instances structure is now 130 feet wide, 30 feet of the utilization of water-power are to above the river bed, and 1,019 feet in be found. Many members of this Insti- length. From above the weir, a system… … a width of 140 feet, and depth of 22 feet. wire ropes. In the report of the Tech- A second canal, parallel through a dis- nical Education Commission there is an tance of a mile with the first, takes the interesting- account of a visit to Windisch, where 1,000 H.P. are utilized, the weir water after…

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