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... horizontally placed wheels which , connected with a 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 ...
... horizontally placed wheels which , connected with a 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 ...
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... horizontal . In each link there are alternately 9 and 10 bars of sizes varying from 3 × 9 inches for the upper to 3 × 7 inches for the lower links . The pins also diminish proportionally from 7 to 5 inches in diameter . Fig . 3 shows in ...
... horizontal . In each link there are alternately 9 and 10 bars of sizes varying from 3 × 9 inches for the upper to 3 × 7 inches for the lower links . The pins also diminish proportionally from 7 to 5 inches in diameter . Fig . 3 shows in ...
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... horizontally to n , which causes the wire in Fig . 10 to take the position of the dotted curve with a fixed deflection ... horizontal projection of the curve , or , in other words , that it forms a parabola . This assumption is the more ...
... horizontally to n , which causes the wire in Fig . 10 to take the position of the dotted curve with a fixed deflection ... horizontal projection of the curve , or , in other words , that it forms a parabola . This assumption is the more ...
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... horizontal projection , are vanishing . Hence point m is a point of a parabola , which , if prolonged , would have its ver- tex in v . Taking point v as origin and calling the coordinates of g : a and B , those of m : ( a - h ) and ( B ...
... horizontal projection , are vanishing . Hence point m is a point of a parabola , which , if prolonged , would have its ver- tex in v . Taking point v as origin and calling the coordinates of g : a and B , those of m : ( a - h ) and ( B ...
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... each anchorage . Fig . 11 represents the arrangement on Fig.ll Belt to Horizontal Shaft . From there a 16 inch belt to engine . Scale 1 inch = 10 fect Traveling Rope diam . the Brooklyn side . The rope makes first two turns. 33 Fig.ll ...
... each anchorage . Fig . 11 represents the arrangement on Fig.ll Belt to Horizontal Shaft . From there a 16 inch belt to engine . Scale 1 inch = 10 fect Traveling Rope diam . the Brooklyn side . The rope makes first two turns. 33 Fig.ll ...
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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