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... requiring more material and costing more per pound than one formed of straight wires . Secondly , the bulk of the ... require more extensive masonry than the compact and neat wire connection . A cable of wire ropes for the East River ...
... requiring more material and costing more per pound than one formed of straight wires . Secondly , the bulk of the ... require more extensive masonry than the compact and neat wire connection . A cable of wire ropes for the East River ...
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... the guidewires and other preparations required three - quarters of a year longer , until on May 29th , 1877 , the first wire for actual cable - making was stretched . It is estimated , that it will require from 2 to 2 years to com- plete ...
... the guidewires and other preparations required three - quarters of a year longer , until on May 29th , 1877 , the first wire for actual cable - making was stretched . It is estimated , that it will require from 2 to 2 years to com- plete ...
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With Special Reference to the Cables of the East River Bridge Wilhelm Hildenbrand. will require from 2 to 2 years to com- plete the four cables . I. TOWERS AND ANCHORAGES . The building of the lofty stone towers and the massive ...
With Special Reference to the Cables of the East River Bridge Wilhelm Hildenbrand. will require from 2 to 2 years to com- plete the four cables . I. TOWERS AND ANCHORAGES . The building of the lofty stone towers and the massive ...
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... requires 14 minutes for a trip from anchorage to anchorage . The whole machinery , described above , is double ; each set doing the work of carrying wire for two cables . The driving power is derived from the same steam engine . During ...
... requires 14 minutes for a trip from anchorage to anchorage . The whole machinery , described above , is double ; each set doing the work of carrying wire for two cables . The driving power is derived from the same steam engine . During ...
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... requires days and sometimes . weeks ; but once adjusted it guides all wires in the cable . With the commence- ment of every new strand it is lengthen- ed an inch or two as a precautionary measure to assure sufficient lengths for the ...
... requires days and sometimes . weeks ; but once adjusted it guides all wires in the cable . With the commence- ment of every new strand it is lengthen- ed an inch or two as a precautionary measure to assure sufficient lengths for the ...
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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