Technical World Magazine, Volume 12Technical World Company, 1909 |
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Page 52
... concrete and iron , are probably too costly to compete with the wooden posts , and the only solution of . the difficulty lies in the use of cheaper woods and in preventing decay by pre- servative treatment . The most expensive kinds of ...
... concrete and iron , are probably too costly to compete with the wooden posts , and the only solution of . the difficulty lies in the use of cheaper woods and in preventing decay by pre- servative treatment . The most expensive kinds of ...
Page 73
... concrete con- structors who promised to dispense with any embankment , constructing the island in a neighboring port , in order eventually to tow it to the spot . In fact , owing to its lower cost and the well - known ad- vantages of ...
... concrete con- structors who promised to dispense with any embankment , constructing the island in a neighboring port , in order eventually to tow it to the spot . In fact , owing to its lower cost and the well - known ad- vantages of ...
Page 74
... concrete caisson of cubic shape with slightly slanting walls , being seventy- eight feet in length , fifty - five and one- half feet in width and seventy - one feet in height , on which is resting a struc- ture twenty feet in height ...
... concrete caisson of cubic shape with slightly slanting walls , being seventy- eight feet in length , fifty - five and one- half feet in width and seventy - one feet in height , on which is resting a struc- ture twenty feet in height ...
Page 79
... CONCRETE AND MASONRY WALL ON EAST FALLS AVENUE . charge the use of the piers by the rail- roads . In New York the ship line rents its own pier at an enormously high cost or owns it outright at a still higher price for maintenance ...
... CONCRETE AND MASONRY WALL ON EAST FALLS AVENUE . charge the use of the piers by the rail- roads . In New York the ship line rents its own pier at an enormously high cost or owns it outright at a still higher price for maintenance ...
Page 82
... concrete and measures 800 feet , being in the form of a right angle with the apex directly back of the catcher's place . By facing it to the east and south the spectators will be totally free from the least glare of the sun in the ...
... concrete and measures 800 feet , being in the form of a right angle with the apex directly back of the catcher's place . By facing it to the east and south the spectators will be totally free from the least glare of the sun in the ...
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