The Technical World Magazine, Volume 17Technical World Company, 1912 |
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... steel , was fifteen inches out of line and had to be put back . When the rising water began suddenly to lift the ice and with it the 450 feet of falsework on which the third span was being put together , there was a prelim- inary ...
... steel , was fifteen inches out of line and had to be put back . When the rising water began suddenly to lift the ice and with it the 450 feet of falsework on which the third span was being put together , there was a prelim- inary ...
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... steel . forced with steel . A row of eighty- pound rails was set a foot apart all around and the whole structure bound together within the concrete in an amaz- ingly massive manner . Then , above the piers , ice - breakers of the same ...
... steel . forced with steel . A row of eighty- pound rails was set a foot apart all around and the whole structure bound together within the concrete in an amaz- ingly massive manner . Then , above the piers , ice - breakers of the same ...
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... steel structures a day with a single shift of men , day after day , through the storms and the darkness ! But the second and third spans went faster still . The second of 300 feet , was built in six days and the giant third , of 450 ...
... steel structures a day with a single shift of men , day after day , through the storms and the darkness ! But the second and third spans went faster still . The second of 300 feet , was built in six days and the giant third , of 450 ...
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... steel of twenty - seven days . This building of the Miles Glacier bridge was but one incident , though an important one , in the construction of the Morgan - Guggenheim's Alaskan railroad . It was all a battle , and a fierce one , from ...
... steel of twenty - seven days . This building of the Miles Glacier bridge was but one incident , though an important one , in the construction of the Morgan - Guggenheim's Alaskan railroad . It was all a battle , and a fierce one , from ...
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... it out and bolstered it up so that pile - drivers , ties , rails , wood , food , tents , etc. , could be sent forward bit by bit . There were many stretches of trestle to be set and three steel bridges to be anticipated. 9.
... it out and bolstered it up so that pile - drivers , ties , rails , wood , food , tents , etc. , could be sent forward bit by bit . There were many stretches of trestle to be set and three steel bridges to be anticipated. 9.
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