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... Stone for the guidance of the engineer and architect , and they may safely be relied upon in calculating the strength of piers , walls , and other structures where these materials are employed . The Lecture on the Machinery employed in ...
... Stone for the guidance of the engineer and architect , and they may safely be relied upon in calculating the strength of piers , walls , and other structures where these materials are employed . The Lecture on the Machinery employed in ...
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... STONE , AS EX- HIBITED BY THEIR POWERS OF RESISTING COMPRESSION . Experiments on Yorkshire sandstones 99 on granite , grauwacke , & c . 99 on the absorption of water 99 by others General summary PART II . LECTURE I. ON POPULAR EDUCATION ...
... STONE , AS EX- HIBITED BY THEIR POWERS OF RESISTING COMPRESSION . Experiments on Yorkshire sandstones 99 on granite , grauwacke , & c . 99 on the absorption of water 99 by others General summary PART II . LECTURE I. ON POPULAR EDUCATION ...
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... stone , and other materials . The results of the experiments here recorded , however , show that when the length of the cylinder does not greatly differ from three times its radius , the resistance to a crushing force is pretty nearly a ...
... stone , and other materials . The results of the experiments here recorded , however , show that when the length of the cylinder does not greatly differ from three times its radius , the resistance to a crushing force is pretty nearly a ...
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... STONE , AS EXHIBITED BY THEIR POWERS OF RESIST- ING COMPRESSION . ( From the Memoirs of the Manchester Philosophical Society . ) OUR knowledge of the properties of stone , viewed as a building material , is very imperfect , and our ...
... STONE , AS EXHIBITED BY THEIR POWERS OF RESIST- ING COMPRESSION . ( From the Memoirs of the Manchester Philosophical Society . ) OUR knowledge of the properties of stone , viewed as a building material , is very imperfect , and our ...
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... stone , it is also important that it should be laid in the same position as that in which it is found in the quarry , as the action of rain and frost rapidly splits off the laminæ of the stone when it is placed otherwise . The strength ...
... stone , it is also important that it should be laid in the same position as that in which it is found in the quarry , as the action of rain and frost rapidly splits off the laminæ of the stone when it is placed otherwise . The strength ...
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20 tons applied in lbs Author bar iron boiler Boiler plate bridges Britannia Bridge calculated cast-iron collapsing pressure compression construction crane Crown 8vo Crown-glass crushed cube cylinder deck defects diameter elongation experiments external pressure Fahr feet 6 inches fibre Flint-glass flues force formula fracture Grauwacke Green glass HISTORY Illustrations improvements inch in lbs inch thick increase Ingleton iron ships iron vessels keelsons Keyham labour Lectures length load longitudinal machine material mean ments mills millwright nearly observed Penmaenmawr Portrait Post 8vo powers of resistance practical present principle red heat Remarks Rennie Resistance of Glass revised riveted Royal Charter rupture Sandstone Second Edition sectional area specimens square inch Staffordshire steam engine stone Strain applied strength strength of materials stringers subjected temperature tensile tensile strength Thicknesses measured Third Edition tons per square tubes vols wheel Woodcuts wrought iron
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