Cable-making for Suspension Bridges: With Special Reference to the Cables of the East River Bridge |
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... pass around the pins directly , but around a cast iron shoe , which rests against the pin and which increases the curve of bending from 7 to 17 inches diameter . The last link of the anchor chain , to which the strands are attached , is ...
... pass around the pins directly , but around a cast iron shoe , which rests against the pin and which increases the curve of bending from 7 to 17 inches diameter . The last link of the anchor chain , to which the strands are attached , is ...
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... passes at each anchorage around 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 ...
... passes at each anchorage around 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 ...
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... passes around two smaller ones , called " guiding wheels , " which keep the ropes in the desired dis- tance from each other . On the New York side two similar wheels do the same service , which are fixed in a mova- ble frame , so as to ...
... passes around two smaller ones , called " guiding wheels , " which keep the ropes in the desired dis- tance from each other . On the New York side two similar wheels do the same service , which are fixed in a mova- ble frame , so as to ...
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... 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 46.
... 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 46.
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... passing around a roller under the floorbeam . This arrangement is beyond doubt effective . Perhaps an advantageous modification of it might be , instead of making suspender and stay continuous , to attach them sep- arately to a lever ...
... passing around a roller under the floorbeam . This arrangement is beyond doubt effective . Perhaps an advantageous modification of it might be , instead of making suspender and stay continuous , to attach them sep- arately to a lever ...
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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