Michigan Engineers' Annual Containing the Proceedings of the Michigan Engineering Society, Volumes 13-151892 |
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... Cost Water Supply Sewerage Tests of Materials Graphics for Engineers , Architects Trusses and Arches Analyzed and Builders and Discussed by Graphical Methods by Charles E. Greene Prof. of Civil Engineering in the University of Michigan ...
... Cost Water Supply Sewerage Tests of Materials Graphics for Engineers , Architects Trusses and Arches Analyzed and Builders and Discussed by Graphical Methods by Charles E. Greene Prof. of Civil Engineering in the University of Michigan ...
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... costs $ 4,000.00 . One man operates it by five levers . One other man keeps up steam and cares for the two engines , and ... cost about five millions of dollars . The dock is supposed to be 800 feet long and 100 feet wide when it is done ...
... costs $ 4,000.00 . One man operates it by five levers . One other man keeps up steam and cares for the two engines , and ... cost about five millions of dollars . The dock is supposed to be 800 feet long and 100 feet wide when it is done ...
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... cost three million dollars , and the expectation now is that it will cost less than two . In fact , less than one and three - quarters is the estimate I have heard . The earth is being moved at about 14 cents per cubic yard , out of ...
... cost three million dollars , and the expectation now is that it will cost less than two . In fact , less than one and three - quarters is the estimate I have heard . The earth is being moved at about 14 cents per cubic yard , out of ...
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... cost , carrying capacity very great , and the repairs must be slight . Speed is very good , good enough for freight vessels , and they will undoubtedly revolu- tionize the carrying of bulk freight . It is not expected that they will ...
... cost , carrying capacity very great , and the repairs must be slight . Speed is very good , good enough for freight vessels , and they will undoubtedly revolu- tionize the carrying of bulk freight . It is not expected that they will ...
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... cost many thousand dollars less . Two weeks later , orders came to move the dredges over to the new ground . Anticipating the final adoption of this line , the writer had buoyed it out , so that within one hour after he received his ...
... cost many thousand dollars less . Two weeks later , orders came to move the dredges over to the new ground . Anticipating the final adoption of this line , the writer had buoyed it out , so that within one hour after he received his ...
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Page 129 - Whether, as rules of property, it would now be safe to change these doctrines where they have been applied, as before remarked, is for the several States themselves to determine. If they choose to resign to the riparian proprietor rights which properly belong to them in their sovereign capacity, it is not for others to raise objections.
Page 86 - Miami river of the lake, then and in that case, with the assent of the Congress of the United States, the northern boundary of this State shall be established by, and extend to, a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami bay...
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Page 121 - The State shall not be a party to or interested in any work of internal improvement, nor engaged in carrying on any such work, except in the expenditure of grants to the State of land or other property.
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