Cable-making for Suspension Bridges: With Special Reference to the Cables of the East River Bridge |
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... steam engine , give motion to it . The traveling sheave with two wires are carried over by the rope . One wire , which is fasten- ed to the leg appears to stand still , while the other , which unwinds from the drum , runs with twice the ...
... steam engine , give motion to it . The traveling sheave with two wires are carried over by the rope . One wire , which is fasten- ed to the leg appears to stand still , while the other , which unwinds from the drum , runs with twice the ...
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... which runs along the front face of the anchorage and which , by a 16 inch belt , is in con- nection with a steam engine located in the yard below . The 8 inch belt runs loosely on the pulley and receives ad- hesion by tightening 34.
... which runs along the front face of the anchorage and which , by a 16 inch belt , is in con- nection with a steam engine located in the yard below . The 8 inch belt runs loosely on the pulley and receives ad- hesion by tightening 34.
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... steam and makes about 70 revolutions per minute . This corresponds to a speed of 4 feet per second of the traveling rope , which therefore requires 14 minutes for a trip from anchorage to anchorage . The whole machinery , described ...
... steam and makes about 70 revolutions per minute . This corresponds to a speed of 4 feet per second of the traveling rope , which therefore requires 14 minutes for a trip from anchorage to anchorage . The whole machinery , described ...
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... of the river . The remaining part of the rope was taken from the reel and the end after passing over the tower , fastened to the drum of a steam engine . By observation it was ascertained , that most every day an acci- dental coincidence ...
... of the river . The remaining part of the rope was taken from the reel and the end after passing over the tower , fastened to the drum of a steam engine . By observation it was ascertained , that most every day an acci- dental coincidence ...
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... STEAM . The Steam Engine , Propellers , & c . , & c . , for Young Engineers . By the late W. R. King , U. S. N. , revised by Chief- Engineer J. W. King , U. S. Navy . 19th edition . 8vo , cloth , 1 50 1 50 12 50 1 50 2.00 AUCHINCLOSS ...
... STEAM . The Steam Engine , Propellers , & c . , & c . , for Young Engineers . By the late W. R. King , U. S. N. , revised by Chief- Engineer J. W. King , U. S. Navy . 19th edition . 8vo , cloth , 1 50 1 50 12 50 1 50 2.00 AUCHINCLOSS ...
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Cable-Making for Suspension Bridges: With Special Reference to the Cables of ... Wilhelm Hildenbrand No preview available - 2018 |
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adjusted anchor anchor bars anchorage ASITY attached Berkeley LIBRARY Brooklyn C. E. Illustrated calculation CALIFORN CALIFORNIA LIBRARY cloth connection consists cradle ropes curve deflection distance drum East River Bridge edition engravings equal equation fastened feet final position foot footbridge formula friction GILLMORE Guide Wire guidewire hence high water horizontal tension HYPSOMETRY land cable land span lashing latter length lithographed plates load manufacture masonry Messrs method morocco motion P₁ parabola placed pounds PRACTICAL TREATISE Prof regulated ring river span rollers rolling friction running wire saddle Scale screw shoe side spliced squeezer squeezing standing wire stays steam engine steel rope strain strand stretch suspended SUSPENSION BRIDGES tangent tion tons traveling rope traveling sheave U. S. Navy UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA values vertex W. H. CORFIELD weight wheel wire ropes wooden block wrapping machine wrapping wire Zerah Colburn