 ... by sixteen iron screws four and a half inches in diameter. This platform has several shores on its surface, which were brought to bear equally on the vessel's bottom, to prevent her from canting over on being raised out of the water. About thirty...  Journal of the Franklin Institute - Seite 3551843Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1843 - 886 Seiten
...cause. Its chief value however would be shewn in a high pressure engine when it would give immediate warning of any approach to such a degree of temperature...every change in the temperature of the sea will be shewn at once on the dial on deck. As in the Atlantic Ocean and in other deep seas, the deep water... | |
 | David Stevenson - 1838 - 370 Seiten
...New York. The vessel to he raised by this apparatus was floated over a platform of wood, sunk to the depth of about ten feet below the surface of the water, and suspended from a strongly built wooden frame-work by sixteen iron screws four and a half inches in... | |
 | David Stevenson - 1838 - 366 Seiten
...New York. The vessel to be raised by this apparatus was floated over a platform of wood, sunk to the depth of about ten feet below the surface of the water, and suspended from a strongly built wooden frame-work by sixteen iron screws four and a half inches in... | |
 | 1840 - 550 Seiten
...New York. The vessel to be raised by this apparatus was floated over a platform of wood, sunk to the depth of about ten feet below the surface of the water, and suspended from a strongly built wooden frame-work by sixteen iron screws four and a half inches in... | |
 | 1840 - 556 Seiten
...Now York. The vessel to be raised by this apparatus was floated over a platform of wood, sunk to the depth of about ten feet below the surface of the water, and suspended from a strongly built wooden frame- work by sixteen iron screws four and a half inches in... | |
 | Francis Beckford Ward - 1866 - 600 Seiten
...Jacques in the Rue de Rivoli. A. piece of very interesting solid Roman wall was discovered the other day, at a depth of about ten feet below the surface of the soil, in making the excavations for the new portion of the Rue Bonaparte in Paris. The workmen had... | |
 | 1866 - 346 Seiten
...Jacques in the Rue de llivoli. A piece of very interesting solid Roman wall was discovered the other day, at a depth of about ten feet below the surface of the soil, in making the excavations for the new portion of the Rue Bonaparte in Paris. The workmen "had... | |
 | George Goudie Chisholm - 1882 - 1020 Seiten
...Mareotis, which was laid under water by the British during the siege of Alexandria in 1801, and which lies at a depth of about ten feet below the surface of the Mediterranean. After being drained its bed will be freed from the saline incrustation remaining by... | |
 | 1901 - 690 Seiten
...finely molded marble block which once formed the lintel of a door, and was dug up in our excavations at a depth of about ten feet below the surface of the soil, the words, " Synagogue of the Hebrews." Under this very lintel St. Paul probably passed and repassed... | |
 | John Harrison Morrison - 1909 - 184 Seiten
...period: "The vessel to be raised by this apparatus was floated over a platform of wood sunk to the depth of about ten feet below the surface of the water, and suspended from a strongly built wooden frame work by 16 iron screws 4£ inches in diameter. This platform... | |
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