The Technical World Magazine, Volume 17Technical World Company, 1912 |
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... hour or two's work for the resistless river to wreck the whole span that way . The emergency was met , as scores of others had been before . The steam from every available engine was driven into small feed pipes and every man in camp ...
... hour or two's work for the resistless river to wreck the whole span that way . The emergency was met , as scores of others had been before . The steam from every available engine was driven into small feed pipes and every man in camp ...
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... hour . That hour meant a year saved and that year a fortune . This was but one of Mr. Hawkins ' shattering victories in his con- quering of the Copper and he character- istically trans- ferred the entire credit to the men who were under ...
... hour . That hour meant a year saved and that year a fortune . This was but one of Mr. Hawkins ' shattering victories in his con- quering of the Copper and he character- istically trans- ferred the entire credit to the men who were under ...
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... hour against the bridge piers . In addition these piers must withstand the breakup of the seven - foot ice sheet under enormous pressure each spring . No such problem in bridge - build- ing had ever been met before . It was one of the ...
... hour against the bridge piers . In addition these piers must withstand the breakup of the seven - foot ice sheet under enormous pressure each spring . No such problem in bridge - build- ing had ever been met before . It was one of the ...
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... hour of the time the last piece was checked the first big girder was in place . Ten and one - half days later the first span , 400 feet long , was completed . Nearly forty feet of towering steel structures a day with a single shift of ...
... hour of the time the last piece was checked the first big girder was in place . Ten and one - half days later the first span , 400 feet long , was completed . Nearly forty feet of towering steel structures a day with a single shift of ...
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... hour's pleasant run over a roadbed that equals almost any in the East and through a country that fairly smiles at you . But it did not smile to those fighters of the summer of 1908. There were thousands of tons of stuff to be got some ...
... hour's pleasant run over a roadbed that equals almost any in the East and through a country that fairly smiles at you . But it did not smile to those fighters of the summer of 1908. There were thousands of tons of stuff to be got some ...
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