How It Is Done; Or, Victories of the Engineer - 5 Angebote vergleichen

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This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 72 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: . . . for its design, the late Sir Benjamin Baker, in a paper read before the Royal Institution of Great Britain. The piers and arches are founded upon a platform of masonry 87 feet wide and 10 feet thick, protected up and down stream by a continuous watertight line of cast-iron sheet piling, with cemented joints. This piling reaches down into the sand bed of the river to a depth of 23 feet below the upper surface of the floor, and thus cuts off the water and prevents the undermining which had given so much trouble in the case of the Cairo barrage. The floor is further protected along both edges by aprons of clay and gravel faced with stones. The roadway running along the crest is 41 feet above the platform, and each pier has an up-and-down-stream length of 51 feet. It is easy enough, wrote the author, to construct dams and barrages on paper; but wherever water is concerned the real difficulty and interest is in the practical execution of the works, for water never sleeps, but day and night is stealthily seeking to defeat your plans. On the Nile the conditions were very special, and in some respects advantageous. There is only one flood in the year, and within small limits the time of its occurrence can be foretold, and arrangements made accordingly. It would have been impossible to have carried out the Nile works on the system adopted had the river been subject to frequent floods. The working season for below-water work on the Nile lies practically between November and July, for nothing would be gained by starting the temporary enclosing embankments, or sudds, when the river was at a higher level than it is in November; nor would it be possible at any reasonable cost to prevent the sudds from being swept away by the flood in July. At Assyut the. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...for its design, the late Sir Benjamin Baker, in a paper read before the Royal Institution of Great Britain. The piers and arches are founded upon a platform of masonry 87 feet wide and 10 feet thick, protected up and down stream by a continuous watertight line of cast-iron sheet piling, with cemented joints. This piling reaches down into the sand bed of the river to a depth of 23 feet below the upper surface of the floor, and thus cuts off the water and prevents the undermining which had given so much trouble in the case of the Cairo barrage. The floor is further protected along both edges by aprons of clay and gravel faced with stones. The roadway running along the crest is 41 feet above the platform, and each pier has an up-and-down-stream length of 51 feet. "It is easy enough," wrote the author, "to construct dams and barrages on paper; but wherever water is concerned the real difficulty and interest is in the practical execution of the works, for water never sleeps, but day and night is stealthily seeking to defeat your plans. On the Nile the conditions were very special, and in some respects advantageous. There is only one flood in the year, and within small limits the time of its occurrence can be foretold, and arrangements made accordingly. It would have been impossible to have carried out the Nile works on the system adopted had the river been subject to frequent floods. The working season for below-water work on the Nile lies practically between November and July, for nothing would be gained by starting the temporary enclosing embankments, or sudds, when the river was at a higher level than it is in November; nor would it be possible at any reasonable cost to prevent the sudds from being swept away by the flood in July. At Assyut the... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Product group: Book, Published: 2012-03-06, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

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