The Technical World Magazine, Volume 6Technical World Company, 1907 |
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STEEL BRIDGE OVER TEHUANTEPEC River . are required to transfer freight from ship to ship , ocean to ocean , by the Mexican route ; but , even considering this draw- back , there is still a saving of four days , or $ 2,000 . Another ...
STEEL BRIDGE OVER TEHUANTEPEC River . are required to transfer freight from ship to ship , ocean to ocean , by the Mexican route ; but , even considering this draw- back , there is still a saving of four days , or $ 2,000 . Another ...
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... bridges , five railway bridges , and sixteen wire - rope ferries . The road bridge at Haltenau is carried on double pontoons ; and that at Rendsburg , sustaining the road to Itzehoe , has a hydraulic swing- span of 164 feet ; the two ...
... bridges , five railway bridges , and sixteen wire - rope ferries . The road bridge at Haltenau is carried on double pontoons ; and that at Rendsburg , sustaining the road to Itzehoe , has a hydraulic swing- span of 164 feet ; the two ...
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at Grunenthal on an arch bridge of 514- feet span , 137.8 feet in height . The Kiel- Flushing Railway and the Kiel - Eckeon- forde road cross at Levansan . The Kiel canal is excellently protected at both ends against the possible attack ...
at Grunenthal on an arch bridge of 514- feet span , 137.8 feet in height . The Kiel- Flushing Railway and the Kiel - Eckeon- forde road cross at Levansan . The Kiel canal is excellently protected at both ends against the possible attack ...
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... BRIDGE IN BERLIN . P OTATOES are so universally an article of diet that they are rarely thought of in any other connec- tion ; and the assertion that they enter almost as universally into the makeup of the clothes we wear as into our ...
... BRIDGE IN BERLIN . P OTATOES are so universally an article of diet that they are rarely thought of in any other connec- tion ; and the assertion that they enter almost as universally into the makeup of the clothes we wear as into our ...
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... Bridge . " That you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear seems the most useless truth ever uttered . Nobody wants to . " Two heads are better than one - especially if they are on American dollars . " What is worth getting is worth ...
... Bridge . " That you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear seems the most useless truth ever uttered . Nobody wants to . " Two heads are better than one - especially if they are on American dollars . " What is worth getting is worth ...
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