Useful Information for Engineers: Containing Experimental Researches on the Collapse of Boiler Flues and the Strength of Materials, and Lectures on Popular Education and Various Subjects Connected with Mechanical Engineering, Iron Shipbuilding, the Properties of Steam, Etc. Second series |
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... cranes , so admirably adapted for lifting heavy goods , and swinging them round over a circle of large radius . In this statement it now only remains for me to express my acknowledgments to the Councils of the Royal Society and the ...
... cranes , so admirably adapted for lifting heavy goods , and swinging them round over a circle of large radius . In this statement it now only remains for me to express my acknowledgments to the Councils of the Royal Society and the ...
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... VESSELS EXCEEDING THREE 1 Lloyd's regulations FEET IN LENGTH . The general principle of construction Water tight bulkheads • Details of the cellular bottom War vessels a ay travelling cranes LECTURE VIII . 297 E PROPERTIES OF.
... VESSELS EXCEEDING THREE 1 Lloyd's regulations FEET IN LENGTH . The general principle of construction Water tight bulkheads • Details of the cellular bottom War vessels a ay travelling cranes LECTURE VIII . 297 E PROPERTIES OF.
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... cranes LECTURE VIII . 297 E PROPERTIES OF STEAM , ITS MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATION . principles in the construction of boilers gth as affected by length gth as affected by diameter gth as affected by thickness of plates ty of steam aw of ...
... cranes LECTURE VIII . 297 E PROPERTIES OF STEAM , ITS MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATION . principles in the construction of boilers gth as affected by length gth as affected by diameter gth as affected by thickness of plates ty of steam aw of ...
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... cranes , and could turn his hand to the bench or the forge with equal adroitness and facility . If hard pressed , as was frequently the case in country places far from towns , he could devise for himself expedients which enabled him to ...
... cranes , and could turn his hand to the bench or the forge with equal adroitness and facility . If hard pressed , as was frequently the case in country places far from towns , he could devise for himself expedients which enabled him to ...
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... in our present construction , having arrived , in- dependently , at nearly the same conclusions as myself on the necessity for a large increase of transverse strength . ] 282 LECTURE VII . ON WROUGHT IRON TUBULAR CRANES . WAR VESSELS . 281.
... in our present construction , having arrived , in- dependently , at nearly the same conclusions as myself on the necessity for a large increase of transverse strength . ] 282 LECTURE VII . ON WROUGHT IRON TUBULAR CRANES . WAR VESSELS . 281.
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