Cable-making for Suspension Bridges: With Special Reference to the Cables of the East River Bridge |
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... data of these calculations , as well as the diagrams of the apparatus and the de- scription of the method of working , are taken from the East River Bridge , which , by its magnitude and present erection , is a fit PREFACE. ...
... data of these calculations , as well as the diagrams of the apparatus and the de- scription of the method of working , are taken from the East River Bridge , which , by its magnitude and present erection , is a fit PREFACE. ...
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... taken over separately and ad- justed ; and all of them are by a wrapping combined into a cable . Each method has advantages , which in certain cases will recommend its applica- tion . A wire rope is easily handled and a cable of ropes ...
... taken over separately and ad- justed ; and all of them are by a wrapping combined into a cable . Each method has advantages , which in certain cases will recommend its applica- tion . A wire rope is easily handled and a cable of ropes ...
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... A number of them , spliced together , are wound on wooden drums , which are large enough to contain about 12-14 wires of the length of the whole cable . The end of a wire , taken from the drum , is now temporarily fastened to 12.
... A number of them , spliced together , are wound on wooden drums , which are large enough to contain about 12-14 wires of the length of the whole cable . The end of a wire , taken from the drum , is now temporarily fastened to 12.
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... taken from the sheave and laid around the shoe in such a manner , that all standing wires occupy one side of it , and all running wires the other . These two wires are now regulated according to a " guide - wire " which previously has ...
... taken from the sheave and laid around the shoe in such a manner , that all standing wires occupy one side of it , and all running wires the other . These two wires are now regulated according to a " guide - wire " which previously has ...
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... taken across the river . During the previous winter all machinery pertaining to traveling ropes , etc. , was erected on the Brooklyn anchor- age . Building cradles and footbridge , suspending the guidewires and other preparations ...
... taken across the river . During the previous winter all machinery pertaining to traveling ropes , etc. , was erected on the Brooklyn anchor- age . Building cradles and footbridge , suspending the guidewires and other preparations ...
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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