The Technical World Magazine, Volume 6Technical World Company, 1907 |
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Page 21
... roads , taking the grades over the railroad tracks without apparent trouble . Of late the most novel uses to which it has been put are the cultivation of vine- yards and the planting of potatoes and other tubers and roots . As the ...
... roads , taking the grades over the railroad tracks without apparent trouble . Of late the most novel uses to which it has been put are the cultivation of vine- yards and the planting of potatoes and other tubers and roots . As the ...
Page 22
... road it has made continuous trips of three hundred miles at an aver- age speed of six miles per hour , a faster speed not being possible because of the broad driving wheels , which , however , can be replaced with narrower ones when ...
... road it has made continuous trips of three hundred miles at an aver- age speed of six miles per hour , a faster speed not being possible because of the broad driving wheels , which , however , can be replaced with narrower ones when ...
Page 27
... road to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific . The neck is the Isthmus of Tehuante- pec , and it has been regarded as an in- viting path for inter - oceanic transporta- tion ever since the earliest times . In fact , as far back as 1520 ...
... road to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific . The neck is the Isthmus of Tehuante- pec , and it has been regarded as an in- viting path for inter - oceanic transporta- tion ever since the earliest times . In fact , as far back as 1520 ...
Page 28
... road was actually opened . Ships , entering the Coatzacoalcos River from the Gulf , ran twenty - five miles up that stream , and passengers and freight were then disem- barked , to accomplish the rest of the journey on horseback and ...
... road was actually opened . Ships , entering the Coatzacoalcos River from the Gulf , ran twenty - five miles up that stream , and passengers and freight were then disem- barked , to accomplish the rest of the journey on horseback and ...
Page 30
... road runs through a deep caƱon . The equipment is first - class in all re- spects . All the bridges are of steel , with abutments of solid masonry , and the Jal- tepec River is crossed by a five - span by way of Tehuantepec ...
... road runs through a deep caƱon . The equipment is first - class in all re- spects . All the bridges are of steel , with abutments of solid masonry , and the Jal- tepec River is crossed by a five - span by way of Tehuantepec ...
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