The Technical World Magazine, Volume 15Technical World Company, 1911 |
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Page 49
... canal , nine miles long , built forty years ago at a cost of $ 8,000,000 , is to be completely drowned out , with not a stick or a stone left to show where it once made possible the passage of the treacherous Des Moines rapids . The ...
... canal , nine miles long , built forty years ago at a cost of $ 8,000,000 , is to be completely drowned out , with not a stick or a stone left to show where it once made possible the passage of the treacherous Des Moines rapids . The ...
Page 50
... canal alongside of the perilous rapids where many a steamboat and many a raft had met demolition , estab- lishing three locks for the purpose of raising and lowering craft from one level to another . Flowing through the high , limestone ...
... canal alongside of the perilous rapids where many a steamboat and many a raft had met demolition , estab- lishing three locks for the purpose of raising and lowering craft from one level to another . Flowing through the high , limestone ...
Page 51
... canal and its three locks with a single lock , which would answer every purpose , and the twenty - year old dry dock with a new one , and from now to the end of time to supply the power to operate the new lock and the new dry dock ...
... canal and its three locks with a single lock , which would answer every purpose , and the twenty - year old dry dock with a new one , and from now to the end of time to supply the power to operate the new lock and the new dry dock ...
Page 53
THIS NINE - MILE CANAL . BUILT AT A COST OF $ 8.000.000 . WILL , WITH ITS LOCKS . BE SUBMERGED TWENTY FEET BY THE BACK WATER OF THE DAM . COMPLETELY SUBMERGED . A Sea Song Oh , for a soft and gentle. THREE LOCKS . SIMILAR TO THIS . IN ...
THIS NINE - MILE CANAL . BUILT AT A COST OF $ 8.000.000 . WILL , WITH ITS LOCKS . BE SUBMERGED TWENTY FEET BY THE BACK WATER OF THE DAM . COMPLETELY SUBMERGED . A Sea Song Oh , for a soft and gentle. THREE LOCKS . SIMILAR TO THIS . IN ...
Page 236
... Canal is shown in the accompanying illustrations . A large number of these cars are being used in work upon that project . The dumping of the cars is controlled by compressed air from the engine , the cars being equipped with an extra ...
... Canal is shown in the accompanying illustrations . A large number of these cars are being used in work upon that project . The dumping of the cars is controlled by compressed air from the engine , the cars being equipped with an extra ...
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