Bulletin of the New York State Museum, Band 4,Ausgaben 16-19University of the State of New York, 1897 |
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Seite 95 - ... thirty-five per centum shall be a general county charge and fifteen per centum shall be assessed upon and paid by the owners of the lands benefited in the proportion of the benefits accruing to said owners as determined by the town assessors in the next section hereof.
Seite 131 - ... the fire, when they become quite hard They are often a full span long, and the bowls are about half as large again as those of our English pipes. The fore part of each commonly runs out with a sharp peak, two or three fingers broad, and a quarter of an inch thick...
Seite 131 - In his early account of the Narragansetts, Wood says, ' From hence other tribes have their great stone pipes, which will hold a quarter of an ounce of tobacco, which they make with steel drills and other instruments; such is their ingenuity and dexterity that they can imitate the English mold so accurately that were it not for matter and color it were hard to distinguish them; they make these of green, and sometimes of black stone.
Seite 99 - The trench shall be excavated to a depth of twelve (12) inches below the finished grade of the gutter ; gravel shall then be spread and rammed to a depth of four (4) inches. A layer of bedding sand or gravel free from stone larger than...
Seite 97 - In the case of heavy fills you must not run the roller to the edge of the shoulders unless the fill has had time to settle. Work out slowly on this kind of work. In every case the screenings used on the surface as a binder course must be of the same material as the top course of the road.
Seite 99 - ... a bank, the outlet must be protected by masonry, as provided in pipe culverts. 88. All pipe must be laid true to a line and grade, and no pipe is to be laid on a grade of less than three (3) inches in one hundred (100) feet. 89. If in...
Seite 233 - requested to report to the Legislature, at its next session, the most expedient method of obtaining a complete geological survey of the State, which shall furnish a scientific and perfect account of its rocks, soils, and minerals, and...
Seite 207 - ... lower temperature range. Treatments of 4 by 4-inch by 4-foot matched hemlock specimens, in which the temperature of the mixtures was raised to give them the same viscosity as that of creosote at 160° F., showed that somewhat better penetrations were obtained with the higher temperatures. This effect is probably due in a large measure to the fact that the hotter oils heated the wood more rapidly and to a greater depth during the pressure period, thereby producing more favorable conditions for...
Seite 99 - All stone used in gutters shall be rounded field, bank, or river stone; no flat, shaky, or rotten stone shall be used. The stone may, on the average, lay from four (4) to six (6) square yards to the ton. A cubic yard may be estimated to weigh one and one-third (1i) tons.
Seite 16 - ... people or another of the ancient world, and I confidently look to finding that the other two, and yet additional methods since experimentally made out, were somewhere followed by men before me. And, thirdly, there is another lesson of later development this experience has taught me: that palaeolithic man, of the French caves at least — that man who is said to have known no other art of working stone than by rudely breaking it into shape by blows of other stones — could not have existed in...