Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries: With a Description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and Other CanalsE. & F. N. Spon, 1890 - 507 pagina's |
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Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries: With a Discription of ... James Stephen Jeans Volledige weergave - 1890 |
Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries: With a Discription of ... James Stephen Jeans Volledige weergave - 1890 |
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Aire and Calder amount aqueduct average barges basin Birmingham boats bottom Bridgwater cable Canal Company canal navigation canal system carried cent century chain channel charge coal commenced connected considerable constructed cost of transport cubic yards Danube depth distance docks dredgers dredging Elbe embankment employed engine England English canals Erie Canal estimated excavation feet long feet wide France freight gates Grand Junction Canal harbour haulage inches inclined plane inland iron isthmus kilometres lake length Lesseps lift Liverpool loaded locks London Manchester Ship Canal Mary's Falls Canal means Mersey metres miles an hour miles per hour millions sterling Nicaragua Nicaraguan Canal North ocean Panama Canal pass port proposed railway companies Rhine river rope route Severn side sluices speed Staffordshire steam steamers Suez Canal Thames tolls tonnage tons towage towing trade traffic tunnel United vessels waterways weir Welland Canal wheel width
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Pagina 411 - Screw Cutting Tables, for the use of Mechanical Engineers, showing the proper arrangement of Wheels for cutting the Threads of Screws of any required pitch, with a Table for making the Universal Gas-pipe Threads and Taps.
Pagina 5 - It was only in fine weather that the whole breadth of the road was available for wheeled vehicles. Often the mud lay deep on the right and the left ; and only a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire.
Pagina 392 - Tabulated Weights of Angle, Tee, Bulb, Round, Square, and Flat Iron and Steel, and other information for the use of Naval Architects and Shipbuilders. By CH JORDAN, MINA Fourth edition, 32mo, cloth, 2s.
Pagina 388 - AGRICULTURE Hemp. A Practical Treatise on the Culture for Seed and Fibre. By SS Boyce. 13 illus., 112 pp., crown 8vo. (New York, 1900.) 2s.
Pagina 43 - Gentlemen come to view our eighth wonder of the world, the subterranean navigation which is cutting by the great Mr. Brindley, who handles rocks as easily as you would plum-pies, and makes the four elements subservient to his will. He is as plain a looking man as one of the boors of the Peak, or one of his own carters ; but when he speaks all ears listen, and every mind is filled with wonder at the things he pronounces to be practicable.
Pagina 404 - Practical Laws and Data on the Condensation of Steam in Covered and Bare Pipes; to which is added a translation of Peclet's "Theory and Experiments on the Transmission of Heat Through Insulating Materials.
Pagina 391 - Connan. 117 illus., 150 pp., 8vo. (1914.) 3s. 6d. net. Electric Cables, their Construction and Cost. By D. Coyle and FJO Howe. With many diagrams and 216 tables, 466 pp., crown 8vo, leather. (1909.) 15s.
Pagina 6 - Kent and Sussex none but the strongest horses could, in winter, get through the bog, in which, at every step, they sank deep. The markets were often inaccessible during several months. It is said that the fruits of the earth were sometimes suffered to rot in one place, while in another place, distant only a few miles, the supply fell far short of the demand.
Pagina 390 - Practical Electric Bell Fitting. By FC Allsop. Tenth edition, 186 illus., including 8 folding plates, 185 pp., cr. 8vo. (1914.) 2s. 6d. net. Telephones : their Construction and Fitting. By FC Allsop.
Pagina 388 - The Drainage of Fens and Low Lands by Gravitation and Steam Power. By WH Wheeler. 8 plates, 175 pp., 8vo. (1888.) 12s.