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lemma:
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id: 12299
pos: NNP
token:
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lemma:
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id: 12299
pos: NNP
token:
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lemma:
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id: 12299
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token:
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lemma:
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id: 12299
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token:
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lemma:
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lemma:
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id: 12299
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token:
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lemma:
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id: 12299
pos: NNP
token:
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lemma:
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id: 12299
pos: NNP
token:
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lemma:
  |-----------------+----------+-------+-------+--------+--------+---------+--------+--------+-------+


id: 12299
pos: NNP
token:
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lemma:
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id: 12299
pos: NNP
token:
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lemma:
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id: 12299
pos: NNP
token:
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lemma:
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id: 12299
pos: NNP
token:
  |-----------------+----------+---------+------------+----------+---------+----------+---------+----------+---------+----------+---------+-----------+-------------------+----------|

lemma:
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type: TIME
entity:
  4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ----------------------------------+--------+------------+------------+ | | Length | Average | DATES


id: 17776
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | |INCHES.| | |------+-------+-------+-----------------+---------------+-------+ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |


id: 17776
type: PRODUCT
entity:
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type: PRODUCT
entity:
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type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | G | H | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +---+---------+----+----+----+-----+------+-----+----+---+------------+


id: 17776
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
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type: PERSON
entity:
  day.| Remarks | --------------+------+--------+--------+--------------------------------------+ {| 14


id: 18722
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | Mixed | 54 | 65 | 1.20 | | | | | | | Earth | 94 | 723 | 7.69 | | | | | | | | | | | | Mixed


id: 18722
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | Rock | 21 | 38 | 1.81 | | | | | | | Rock | 46 | 116 | 2.52 | | | | | | | Rock | 59 | 137 | 2.32


id: 18722
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | Mixed | 25 | 48 | 1.92 | | --------------+------+--------+--------+--------------------------------------+


id: 18722
type: PERSON
entity:
  day.| Remarks | --------------+------+--------+--------+--------------------------------------+ {| 21


id: 18722
type: PRODUCT
entity:
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id: 18722
type: PERSON
entity:
  day.| Remarks | --------------+------+--------+--------+--------------------------------------+ {| 7


id: 18722
type: PRODUCT
entity:
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id: 18722
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | Mixed | 6 | 11 | 1.83 | | --------------+------+--------+--------+--------------------------------------+ LINE D


id: 18722
type: PERSON
entity:
  day.| Remarks | --------------+------+--------+--------+--------------------------------------+ {| | | | | {| | | | | Rock {


id: 18722
type: PRODUCT
entity:
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id: 18722
type: PRODUCT
entity:
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id: 18722
type: PRODUCT
entity:
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id: 26131
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  A Description and Draught of a Newly Invented Machine for carrying vessels or ships out of or into any Harbour, Port or River


id: 34942
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  ''All right, boss; I always make the broad-arrow kitchens in the camp, and the flues and the openings for the Flanders kettles


id: 34942
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  Washing, Matching, Improving, Painting, Imitations, Directions for Staining, Sizing, Embodying, Smoothing


id: 18408
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | Thirty-third | | | | | | / | | Street East R. | | | | | | / | +------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------/


id: 18408
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | Thirty-fifth | | | | | | / | | Street East R. | | | | | | / | +------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------/


id: 18408
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | Long Island City | | | | | | / +--+------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------/ | Unloading Points


id: 18408
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | / +---------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------/ | | / | Extra Pins


id: 16938
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | ______________|________|________|________|____________|____________| | | | | | | I_{3} | 20 | 30 | 50


id: 16938
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | 15 | 34.70 | 41.55 | | 16 | 37.01 | 43.86 | | 17 | 39.32 | 46.17 | | 18 | 41.63 | 48.48 | | 19 | 43.95 | 50.80 | | 20 | 46.26 | 53.11 | | 21 | 48.57 | 55.42 | | 22


id: 16938
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | 23 | 53.20 | 60.05 | | 24 | 55.51 | 62.36 | | 25 | 57.82 | 64.67 | | 26 | 60.14 | 66.99 | | 27 | 62.45 | 69.30 | | 28 | 64.76 | 71.61 | | 29 | 67.08 | 73.93 | | 30 | 69.39 | 76.24 | | 31 | 71.70 | 78.55 | |


id: 16938
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | 33 | 76.33 | 83.18 | | 34 | 78.64 | 85.49 | | 35 | 80.95 | 87.80 | | 36 | 83.27 | 90.12 | | 37 | 85.58 | 92.43 | | 38 | 87.89 | 94.74 | | 39 |


id: 12299
type: ORG
entity:
  THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD _Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | 11,130 | 24,000 | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | Elm | 3.8 | 29,000 | 7,500 | | Larch | 2.3 | 19,400 | 8,600 | | Longleaf Pine | 2.2 | 17,300 | 7,400


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | Red oak | 778 | 91.2 | | Sugar maple | 742 | 87.0 | | Rock elm | 696 | 81.6 | | Beech | 607 | 71.2 | | Slippery


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | amabilis | 517 | 639 | | Douglas | 853 | 858 | | white | 742 | 723 | | Hemlock | 790 | 813 | | Pine


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | |-----------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+--------+---------| | | Per | | | Per | Per |


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | |-----------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+--------+---------| | | Per | | | Per | Per | Per | | | cent


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | | | failure | | |-----------+--------+----------+-------------+----------+----------+----------+-----------| | | | Lbs


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | 4 | 40 | 283 | 78.1 | 74.4 | 74.0 | 75.5 | | | 4 | 50 | 292 | 75.8 | 71.5 | 63.9 | 70.4 | | | 4 | 100 | 337


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | 5 | 20 | 253 | 85.0 | 78.1 | 84.2 | 82.4 | | | 6 | 20 | 242 | 95.2 | 89.8 | 76.0 | 87.0 | | | 10 | 20 | 255 | 73.7 | 82.0 | 76.0 | 77.2 | | | 20 | 20 | 258 | 67.5 | 65.0 | 99.0 | 77.2 | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  _ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |---+---------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------| | | Speed


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Speed


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  _ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | 2 by 2 | 30 | 290 | 33.2 | 17.2 | 4,360 | 1.00 | 7,752 | 1.00 | 1,636 | 1.00 | 277 | 1.00 | | Shortleaf


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | 2 by 2 | 26 | 83 | 58.3 | 10.2 | 3.090 | 1.00 | 5,185 | 1.00 | 998 | 1.00 | 199 | 1.00 | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | |------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------|


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | 2 by 2 | 53 | 74.0 | | | 3,240 | | | | | | | | | | Tamarack | 6 by 7 | 4 | 49.9 | 2,332 | 1,432 | 3,032 | | | | | | 24 | 39.2 | 668 | | | 4


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 by 3 | 14 | 13 | 75.6 | 411 | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 by 2 | 12 | 12 | 66.5


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 by 6 | 12 | 2 | 16.2 | 498 | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 by 6 | 10 | 4 | 14.3 | 511 | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 by 6 | 8 | 2 | 13.2 | 429 | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 by 2 | 2 | 145 | 13.8 | 564 | | | | | Norway


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | 7,550 | | | | | | | | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | |---------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------|


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | Extreme | Modulus of | Parallel to | Longitudinal | Perpendicular | Parallel to | For | FormulÃ


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | Average | Working | | Average | Working | Elastic | Working | Elastic | Working | Average | Working |


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | depth | |-----------------+----------+---------+------------+----------+---------+----------+---------+----------+---------+----------+---------+-----------+-------------------+----------|


id: 12299
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | |-----------------+----------+---------+------------+----------+---------+----------+---------+----------+---------+----------+---------+-----------+-------------------+----------|


id: 18747
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --+-----+------+------+----+-----+--+-----+-----+-----+--------------------


id: 18748
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | ---------------------+---------+--------+----------+---------------+--------- Preliminary Work:


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | | | | 11 | | | | | | | | | | | cents | | | | | | | | | | | per | | | | | | | | | | |pound


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  ] | | | | | | | | |-----+----------+------+------+------+-------+----+--------+-------+----+ |_Ke._|


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | | | |========+=====+=====+======+======+=======| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |========+=====+=====+======+======+=======| | | | | +


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  |machine.|firing.| | | |average.| | | | | | | |--------+------+--------+-----+-----+-------+--------+--------+-------| | | | |h


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | |schist| | | | | | | | |--------+------+--------+-----+-----+-------+--------+--------+-------|


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | | | |--------+------+--------+-----+-----+-------+--------+--------+-------| | Per- | |


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | | | |--------+------+---------+--------+------+------+--------| | | | h. m. | h. m. |h.


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | trench | mica | | | | | | | |schist| | | | | | |--------+------+---------+--------+------+------+--------|


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | 1,669| 1,407| | | | | |-------+-------+--------+-------+------+------+------+------+------+ | |Total


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |---------+---------------+--------+--------+-------+--------+--------|


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | +---------+---------------+--------+-------+---------+ WEIGHTS OF VARIOUS TYPES OF LINING PER LINEAR FOOT OF TUNNEL


id: 42149
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  | | -+-----------+-------+-------------+---|-------------+--+--+---+--+--| | 1-54 | 135.0|Rock | |[P


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | | | r | | | | |ing | | | | | | o| | d | B | B | | | | O | | | | | f| | i | o | o | T | |hy- | r | | | | | | | n | r | r | a | M


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | -+-----------+-------+------------------+---+------------+--+--+--+--+--| | 1-68 | 170.0|Rock | 0


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  E | |ing | F | G | G | G | G | G | -+-----------+----+-----+-----+--------+----+----+----+----+----|


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | | | | Tunnel | FIELD SURFACE DESPATCH Supts | OFFICE BOAT Tunnel | Foreman | Civil Head Captain Foremen | Engineer Carpenter Engineer


id: 42149
type: ORG
entity:
  Drillers | Timekeepers Blacksmiths'' Foremen | Telephone Helpers Muckers | Operators Foreman Pipe Fitters


id: 42149
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | Electricians | General | GRUMMETING | | Engineers | Foremen Foremen | Pipefitters | Foreman Resident Foremen Erector Foremen Pipefitters'' | Machinist Doctor Drillers Runners Caulkers


# bib

id: 16440
author: Campbell, J. L.
txt: ./txt/16440.txt
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extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  solids per gallon; and a branch pipe line takes water from the creek water to Luna Reservoir and the pumps at Mile 171, and the latter lift Where the pipe line passes a water tank on the railway, a 4-in. air-chambers, and open stand-pipes on the line, too numerous to mention _Cast-iron Pipe_.--Beginning at the first pumping plant at Coyote, at specifications of the New England Water-Works Association, the pipe was pipe 21 miles long, a large air-chamber in the form of a closed steel The supply pipe from Bonito Creek delivers water into the basin over the If the pipe line is delivering water faster than the leakage on the wood pipe, between Coyote and Bonito Creek, from the _Velocities_.--The pipe line from Bonito Creek to the Nogal Reservoir line, near the reservoir, as indicated on Fig. 2, which shows the hydraulic grades and the pipe diameters of this

title:
  The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170


id: 19037
author: Mason, Francis
txt: ./txt/19037.txt
cache: ./cache/19037.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Typical cross-sections of the tunnels are shown on Plate XII.[B] Workings were started both east and west from the Intermediate Shafts, plant in the shafts by the subsequent work in the Cross-Town Tunnels was excavation of the Twin Tunnel in 33d Street was continued westward to Fig. 3, Plate LIX, shows the first section of the concrete lining completed placed, as shown by Fig. 1, Plate LX, the center wall and skewback were STARTED FOR THREE-TRACK TUNNEL IN 33D STREET NEAR 5TH AVENUE] the tunnel, but the lining was placed as soon as the excavation was West of the Intermediate Shaft the tunnel was excavated for full width excavation of the Twin Tunnel eastward from the end of the open-cut shaft, a drift was driven across the street at the crown of the tunnel, heading, and wall-plates and sets of three-segment arch timbering were rock on the center line between the tunnels.

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158


id: 17302
author: Cresson, Benjamin Franklin
txt: ./txt/17302.txt
cache: ./cache/17302.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  Station-West is bounded as follows: By the east line of Ninth Avenue; by Terminal had excavated under Ninth Avenue a cut which came to the grade of showing rock excavation and supports of 9th Avenue structures. Fig. 1, Plate XLVII, shows the elevated railway structure and the street METHOD OF EXCAVATING NINTH AVENUE PLAN AND ELEVATION SHOWING VARIOUS STAGES METHOD OF EXCAVATING NINTH AVENUE SECTIONS SHOWING VARIOUS STAGES OF WORK avenue at each column, each set being placed on four concrete piers 6 ft. four concrete piers resting on the central rock core, the excavation on the Center line of 32nd St., looking East from Sta. 183+50, showing excavation under Ninth Avenue, permanent concrete piers feet South of center line, showing underpinning of Ninth Avenue structure Plate LII, was taken inside the concrete form for the lower face wall on Showing excavation of completion of South abutment 9th Ave. and method of Supporting Elevated Railway Column 488.

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad The Terminal Station - West


id: 17776
author: Gregory, W. B. (William Benjamin)
txt: ./txt/17776.txt
cache: ./cache/17776.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  TESTS OF CREOSOTED TIMBER. The timber for creosoting shall be long-leafed or southern pine. _Piles._--The piles shall be of long-leafed or southern pine, not less The timbers shall be subjected first to live steam superheated to from the timbers and the length of time they have been cut. large timbers freshly cut, as long a time as 12 hours may be required. must determine the length of time the oil treatment shall continue, so cast-iron beam of the testing machine, while above the roller, and, directly under the beam tested, there was a steel plate 6 by 8 in. TABLE 1.--SUMMARY OF RESULTS OF TRANSVERSE TESTS OF BEAMS AT TULANE A comparison of the results obtained with tests made on untreated timber TABLE 3.--LOBLOLLY PINE.--BENDING TESTS ON BEAMS SEASONED UNDER D. Longitudinal shear at maximum load, in pounds per square inch. [Illustration: PLATE II.--SIDE VIEWS OF TESTED TIMBERS.]

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Tests of Creosoted Timber, Paper No. 1168


id: 17777
author: Klapp, Eugene
txt: ./txt/17777.txt
cache: ./cache/17777.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  REINFORCED CONCRETE PIER CONSTRUCTION. A private yacht pier, built near Glen Cove, Long Island, has brought out ordinary construction, but with creosoted piles; (_b_) a concrete pier To construct such piers in the ordinary manner behind coffer-dams, and before been called to the successful use of reinforced concrete caissons These caissons are constructed wished to reduce the cost, and every other caisson in the pier head was omitted, so that, as built, the pier contains eight caissons and five the shoal water and the great height of the outer caissons in comparison water pressure would be nothing, but the filling of the caissons would The question of the effect of sea water on the concrete was given much The caissons, after being placed, were filled with sand and gravel from sending in at high tide a powerful derrick scow, many of the caissons The next caisson was then towed out, set against the floating

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Reinforced Concrete Pier Construction


id: 18548
author: Jacobs, Charles M. (Charles Mattathias)
txt: ./txt/18548.txt
cache: ./cache/18548.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  City, and also, as Chief Engineer of the North River Division of the New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to record in a Railroad Company was incorporated in the State of New York to construct the scheme for a tunnel to the Central Railroad of New Jersey for a line State Line to the Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New Jersey. 1899, the New York and Long Island Terminal Railroad Company was Long Island Railroad, Mr. Baldwin organized a new company to construct a Pennsylvania Railroad Company Office in New York, when Mr. Cassatt tunnel lines of the New York and New Jersey Railroads to Exchange Place, tunnels from the east side of Tenth Avenue, New York City, to the on the New York side, on the line of the tunnels near the river line of the tunnels in the yards of the Erie Railroad on the New Jersey

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, The North River Division. Paper No. 1151


id: 18065
author: Noble, Alfred
txt: ./txt/18065.txt
cache: ./cache/18065.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  the rock surface, and profiles along the tunnel lines were plotted from through the tunnel of the East River Gas Company at 71st Street. The work of the East River Division at this site embraced the excavation Street from the west side of Seventh Avenue to the east side of Ninth Street lines from the west end of the three-track tunnel to the shaft in 33d Street to the west line of Fifth Avenue, with a descending grade the tunnel roof at 32d Street and Fifth Avenue showed a thin cover with west of Sixth Avenue in 33d Street; the twin tunnel method was the most suitable for the East River tunnels, and the plans and record in work in any way similar to the East River tunnels, part of the tunnels east of Front Street was built without shields. easterly end of the work near East Avenue in Long Island City to the

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Division. Paper No. 1152


id: 18012
author: Temple, E. B.
txt: ./txt/18012.txt
cache: ./cache/18012.txt
extension: .txt
mime: text/plain
summary:
  The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad diverges from a 0.5% grade, crosses over the tracks of the New York Division and the Railroad, and extends from the connection with the New York Division west of the bridge over the New York Division to a point 300 ft. and round-house in the Meadows Yard of the New York Division, were Railroad Company''s tunnel tracks at Prior Street, Jersey City. Chief Engineer, Meadows Division, Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal _Meadows Division, Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad._--The two _Meadows Division, Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad._--The two over the New York Division tracks, which is the point of beginning of Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Division, Passenger and Newark 0.5% from the Harrison platforms to the bridge over the New York Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and as Chief Engineer of the Meadows Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and as Chief Engineer of the Meadows

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Meadows Division and Harrison Transfer Yard. Paper No. 1153


id: 16938
author: Meem, J. C.
txt: ./txt/16938.txt
cache: ./cache/16938.txt
extension: .txt
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  over any given area in contact with the water in the one case or sand pressure required to lift the piston when in clear water alone and in illustrating the pressure due to water on a tunnel buried in sand, If water in excess be put into a cylinder containing sand, and pressure effect on the pressure exerted by the sand with or without water, as When air pressure is used to hold back the water in faces of large area, by the arching or wedging action, the pressure of any water on their The writer believes that experiments will show that in a sand-jack the pressures of subaqueous material--and on his interesting experiments in experiment with sand and water, described by the writer, and is assured theory" in material subject to water pressure, a careful reading of the will find that, if this material is free from water pressure, paper

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  Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910


id: 18748
author: Kempkey, A.
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  construction, and the detailed cost, form the basis of this paper. To form the bottom of this tank, a plain concrete dome is The tank is covered with a roof of reinforced concrete, 4 in. and forms a level base on which the tower is built. Similar construction was used to form the taper base of the tower All horizontal bolts in the lower inside and outside forms were removed, 3.--FORMS FOR WATER TOWER VICTORIA, B.C.] 3.--FORMS FOR WATER TOWER VICTORIA, B.C.] After the dome forms had been put in, the concrete was carried up The tank is the ordinary type of light steel, the lower course TABLE 1.--COST OF HIGH-LEVEL TOWER, VICTORIA WATER-WORKS. writer''s opinion that the steel tank enclosed within the concrete of the inside and outside sheets forming the tank steel be in the form of a thin shell, and in a structure of this kind

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  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 A Concrete Water Tower, Paper No. 1173


id: 18795
author: Bensel, J. A. (John Anderson)
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  AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS individual achievements, engineers are behind other professional men in a fact that will be admitted by all that engineers have not as yet done Profession, John Smeaton, first made use of the term, "engineer," and descriptive of a certain class of men working along professional lines achievements of engineers, particularly in the last hundred years. graphic a showing of engineering activity as I think can be found. engineers, but they seem to be diffident and neglectful of human nature very broad lines in admission to membership, classing as civil engineers limiting and prescribing the right to practice in the State of New York, As to the manner in which engineers individually perform their work, no thing, regarded either from the point of view of what the world needs or to be set to the activities of men along lines which concern us, and society as much as possible along its new lines.

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  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Address at the 42d Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, June 21st, 1910, Paper No. 1178


id: 18408
author: Clarke, George C.
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  the construction of two double-track tunnels under Ninth Avenue at 33d fan-shaped areas east of the west house line of Seventh Avenue were from east of Seventh Avenue and south of 34th Street. and 33d Streets from Seventh Avenue to a point east of the west end of TYPICAL SECTIONS OF RETAINING WALL IN THIRTY-FIRST STREET] surface, crossing under Ninth Avenue and to the center line of 32d the surface of the street on a timber trestle to Tenth Avenue, which was PLANT FOR DISPOSAL OF EXCAVATED MATERIALS PIER NO. Fig. 2.--East Pit, Steam Shovel Loading Excavated Material on Car. ash-pit, and the south wall and the ends were built of concrete. of the compressor-house formed the north wall of the bin, the section The excavation for the retaining walls in 31st and 33d Streets were in The forms and bracing for the Ninth Avenue walls are shown on Fig. 8.

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  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157


id: 18722
author: Woodard, S. H.
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  shafts at the river front in Long Island City, four shields were driven method in Tunnel _B_, where compressed air, but no shield, was used, the shield was re-erected in Tunnel _A_ and was shoved through the soft the end of the work it was evident that the shields in Tunnels _B_, _C_, permanent cast-iron tunnel lining was erected as the shield advanced. iron tunnel lining and the rock. The shields in each pair of tunnels were advanced through the solid rock The first work in air pressure was to remove the shield plug closing the shield, blocked all work at the face of the heading while the former in Shield _D_ are shown in Fig. 3, Plate LXX, while the method of work The shields broke through rock surface in Tunnels _B_, _C_, and _D_, at of the top of the shield; in Tunnel _B_, the rock of the

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159


id: 26052
title: James B. Eads
author: How, Louis
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  Eads learned while he was a clerk among them; and as time went on, he been for three years on the river, Eads gave up his clerkship to go hazardous business Eads invented many new appliances for use in its work the city of Saint Louis gave him $80, out of which he paid his own To be sure, the seven boats were not finished at the time called for. specifications called for, that before the work was finished Eads was The Saint Louis, as Eads wrote to Lincoln, when he sent him a During those trying war times all of Eads''s tremendous energy had by no given to Eads''s work. Eads, however, understood the river like a book, and he had all works of river and harbor improvement to the military engineers; Narrow the Mississippi then, at its mouth, said Eads, and


id: 27632
author: American Society of Civil Engineers
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  Given Turbidity in Applied Water.~ filtered water for a given turbidity of the applied water is turbidity in the filtered water, a raw water may be applied at 75 deg., having twice the turbidity of the water applied at 35 deg., to produce applied water of given turbidity will produce an effluent at 35 deg. applied and in the filtered water, it is entirely logical to _Hydraulic Replacing of Filter Sand._--The author has adopted a method of replacing clean sand in the filters which will commend method may be applied at other plants where conditions seem to replacing sand by the hydraulic method, and yet, from Mr. Johnson''s hydraulic method would be as satisfactory for other filter plants effluents from filters which have been re-sanded by the two methods The experiment of replacing sand by water, referred to by Mr. Longley, was not considered a success at the time, and the method

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXXII, June, 1911 Water Purification Plant, Washington, D. C. Results of Operation.


id: 18229
author: Raymond, Charles W.
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  Previously a tunnel designed for steam railroad traffic, to enter New York City near Christopher Street, was partly constructed, but the work to as the New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. to as the New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Sunnyside Yard, in Long Island City, Borough of Queens, New York. The New York Tunnel Extension is essentially a passenger line, although Seventh Avenue in New York City, joining the Long Island System at tunnel railroad into and through New York City. City and cross the North River by ferry or the Cortlandt Street tunnels Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad Company. extend the lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad by tunnels under the North River to a passenger station to be erected in New York City and thence the City of New York, the Tunnel Company, and the Long Island Railroad now President of the Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad Company.

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Paper No. 1150


id: 939
author: Smiles, Samuel
title:
  The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain


id: 12299
author: Record, Samuel J. (Samuel James)
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  values derived from tests of small beams of dry material are | RESULTS OF STATIC BENDING TESTS ON SMALL CLEAR BEAMS OF 49 WOODS IN GREEN CONDITION | A common method of making tests upon the resistance of wood to | RESULTS OF IMPACT BENDING TESTS ON SMALL CLEAR BEAMS | After exhaustive tests on a number of different woods the U.S. Forest Service concludes as follows: "Sapwood, except that from forces, and the wood fibres are tested in tension and In drying wood no increase in strength results until the free of a transverse bending test on a small pine beam.] of a transverse bending test on a small pine beam.] Shearing specimens are frequently cut from beams after testing. The wood to be tested is cut square with the grain into PROPERTIES OF WOOD, AND TIMBER TESTING PROPERTIES OF WOOD, AND TIMBER TESTING PROPERTIES OF WOOD, AND TIMBER TESTING

title:
  The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing


id: 34942
title: Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works
author: Newman, John
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  known screw piles to penetrate hard and dense sand, gravel, soft sandy "I have seen piles screwed into a kind of clay rock seam, the end of We were working two triangles of screw piles I thought lovely, and like disc piles better for sand, those that sink by water-pressure I any cast-iron screw piles that are less than half an inch in thickness. sufficient length for men to walk round, I have screwed piles by ropes, like a copper ring on the head of the iron pile and a good long timber humble like, and said to the engineer, ''I think you will agree, sir, I said to him, ''It wants a lot of experience to know when piles are not will cease work, I think, very soon?'' ''They will,'' said the engineer. ''extra'' profit string of my brain worked right, and I pointed and said,


id: 40427
author: Wentworth, Tappan
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  Greenfield Railroad Company shall be exclusively appropriated to work "The bonds and stock of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company shall 9. The Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company shall, within one year shall, within six months after the said Troy and Greenfield Railroad thousand dollars, shall be delivered to the treasurer of said company; thousand dollars, shall be delivered to the treasurer of said company; thousand dollars, shall be delivered to the treasurer of said company; miles of graded road, shall have excavated five thousand feet of tunnel said scrip, amounting to twenty thousand dollars, shall be delivered as portion of said scrip, amounting to thirty thousand dollars, shall be dollars, shall be delivered to the treasurer of the said company; and in dollars, shall be delivered to the treasurer of the said company; and in tunnel of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company, who shall receive an

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  Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866.


id: 39785
title: Tunnel Engineering: A Museum Treatment
author: Vogel, Robert M.
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  iron lining, and a movable shield in a subaqueous tunnel at the end air, iron lining, and a movable shield in a subaqueous tunnel at the major tunneling work in the United States. [Illustration: Figure 5.--BURLEIGH ROCK DRILL, improved model of about Latrobe stated the basic philosophy of rock-tunnel work. the first workable application of machine rock drilling to tunneling. progress of the tunnel itself, before and after use of the air drills. [Illustration: Figure 12.--WORKS AT THE CENTRAL SHAFT, HOOSAC TUNNEL, followed up by permanent masonry arching and lining in tunnel work. In that year, work was started on a tunnel under the Thames between work of any period is Henry Law''s _A Memoir of the Thames Tunnel_, tunneling work, and then, as with the shield ten years earlier, almost support for large-area tunnel works in unstable ground, and this remains the only major subaqueous tunnel work driven with air alone.


id: 42149
author: Hewett, Bertram Henry Majendie
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  the rock from the tunnels made it necessary to start the shield-driven kinds of ground through which the shield-driven tunnels had to pass. time were much taken up with the progress of the shield-driven tunnels. TABLE 6.--ROCK TUNNEL EXCAVATION UNDER 32D STREET, EAST OF CUT-AND-COVER iron-lined tunnels and the shield chambers. iron-lined pieces of tunnel placed side by side, with semi-circular [Illustration: TYPES OF CONCRETE LINING OF SHIELD-DRIVEN TUNNELS. _Standard Cross-Section of Concrete Lining of Shield-Driven _Standard Cross-Section of Concrete Lining of Shield-Driven and the working faces, extending the pipe lines, and attending to shield of the tunnel with bolting and working platform is shown on Plate XL. TABLE 27.--SHIELD-DRIVEN TUNNEL WORK, WEEHAWKEN SHAFT, RIVER TUNNEL TABLE 27.--SHIELD-DRIVEN TUNNEL WORK, WEEHAWKEN SHAFT, RIVER TUNNEL TABLE 28.--SHIELD-DRIVEN TUNNEL WORK.--TOTAL NUMBER OF RINGS ERECTED AND TABLE 29.--MONTHLY PROGRESS OF SHIELD-DRIVEN TUNNEL WORK. down and re-erected before the concrete work in the river tunnels was

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The North River Tunnels. Paper No. 1155


id: 43055
author: Various
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  1150 THE NEW YORK TUNNEL EXTENSION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA 1 1150 THE NEW YORK TUNNEL EXTENSION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA 1 V. New York Underground Railway Company: Section 1151 39 Plan and Profile, East River Tunnels 1152 71 Tunnel Lining Forms; Placing Water-Proofing; Weehawken Shaft; and Tunnel Shield Showing 1155 159 Cross-Section of Subaqueous Tunnels Showing 1155 231 Duct Bench Concrete Form in River Tunnels 1155 283 Methods of Excavation, Cross-Town Tunnels, 1158 393 Methods of Tunneling, Timbering, and Lining, 1158 399 Methods of Tunneling in Rock, East River 1159 437 Operation of Shields, East River Tunnels 1159 439 Rock and Sand, East River Tunnels Soft Clay Through Shield, East River Tunnels The first construction work of any note on which Mr. Engle was engaged Mr. Engle was a Member of the Engineers'' Club of Cincinnati from the active business, Mr. Deans organized, from the Sooysmith and Company

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  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910, Start/End Papers The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad


id: 45735
title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, December, 1910
author: American Society of Civil Engineers
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  In 1885 he was elected Assistant City Engineer of New Orleans, which From 1892 to 1896 Mr. Brown held the office of City Engineer of New employed with the King Bridge Company as Assistant Engineer. American Bridge Company, of New York, in charge of railroad structures John Henderson Sample, the only son of Judge William Sample, was born Central lines, working up from Axeman to Division Engineer. Engineer of location and construction of the Missouri Pacific lines in as Assistant Engineer, being engaged on line and grade revision and with the gas companies of New York City for 57 years. The Engineer who was in charge of the work, writes: Engineers connected with that work. In 1893, Mr. Van der Hoek was appointed Division Engineer of the He was elected a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers on He was elected a Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers on


id: 18747
author: Randolph, B. S. (Beverly S.)
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  the rate of grade encountered in the practical operation of railways. the lengths of grade as abscissas and the percentages of weight utilized grades are light in both cases, this feature of train resistance is larger train on grades less than 10 miles in length than on longer grade (as in Item 15 of Table 1) the resistance would be, gravity Examining the items in the table having grades in excess of 10 miles, it In proportioning grade resistance for any line, therefore, a locomotive a 0.02 grade on which a locomotive may be loaded on a basis of tractive Thus the length of the grade, 2.44 miles, makes the tractive is a grade of the same rate, about 1 mile long, near this hill, and a using heavier rates of grade on shorter hills than 10 miles, and indeed grades for 9-3/4 miles, a 29-ton engine

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  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Locomotive Performance On Grades Of Various Lengths, Paper No. 1172


id: 18785
author: Various
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  OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON RAIL SECTIONS.[A] As previously reported to you, the Rail Committee of the American Railway Association to the Rail Committee of The American Railway no specification for Open-Hearth Steel Rails, and in order to "We recommend that the present Specifications for Steel Rails be acceptable they were, as the members of all Rail Committees were present rails rolled, of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, and put in service "SPECIFICATIONS FOR STEEL RAILS.[E] "The percentage of carbon in an entire order of rails shall average The section of rail shall conform as accurately as possible to The standard length of rail shall be 33 ft. (_a_) Drop tests shall be made on pieces of rail rolled from (A) Two pieces shall be tested from each heat of steel. defect, the top rail from each ingot of that heat shall be rejected. "(_b_) For Bessemer Steel the Manufacturer shall, before the rails

title:
  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Final Report of Special Committee on Rail Sections, Paper No. 1177


id: 26131
title: James Watt
author: Carnegie, Andrew
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  Thomas Watt''s son, the father of the great inventor, followed in his of working engines, passed through Watt''s own hands, and for most of his experimental work; nursery from which came the steam engine of Watt, the When Watt gave to the steam-engine five times its efficiency by the new engine were partly supplied from Watt''s own works in Glasgow and Boulton, like most busy men, had time, and an open mind, for new ideas. engine was so satisfactory as to set both Boulton and Watt to thinking At this time, Watt''s most intimate friend of youthful years in We think of Watt and the steam engine appears. indispensable steam engine of Watt had to furnish the motive power. world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine Mr. Watt was the great _improver_ of the steam engine; but, in Thus during the five years from 1761-66 Watt had worked out all


id: 30990
title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16
author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
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  same period two physicians of the name in Edinburgh, one of whom, Dr. Archibald, appears to have been a famous man in his day and generation. In a short time the Bell Rock was laid completely under water, and the When the boats left the Bell Rock to-day it was overflowed by boats reached the rock at six a.m., and the eight artificers who landed rock, and the men worked a considerable time up to their middle in things under night on the Bell Rock, when the work was going forward, writer left the rock, after the tide''s work of this morning, in a fast sea being also considerably less, a boat landed on the rock at six p.m., to-day the sea ran so high that no boat could approach the rock. _Smeaton_ being off the rock, the boats were manned, and taking a supply


id: 40709
title: Facts and Figures Concerning the Hoosac Tunnel
author: Piper, John J.
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  of the Hoosac Tunnel, and the opening of another great route to the incapacity of these lines of New England railroads to do the work that west of Greenfield, within ten miles of the Tunnel line on the same power of the Western Road, which a few years before, had only obtained policy of the Western Railroad Company in regard to the Tunnel line, the Deerfield river, in order to secure power to operate the tunneling commissioners to examine the road and tunnel, and if the report to Cost and Time required to Complete the Tunnel. Hoosac Tunnel been completed twelve years ago, we have reason to Tunnel line, which is now a greater necessity than the Western road was The Hoosac Tunnel will be about four and a half miles long, a pneumatic drill, by means of which our great tunnel will be completed


id: 40514
author: Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals
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  Railroad Companies, with authority to lease or purchase the lines to the name of the State Board of Trustees of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad, operation of said railroads and tunnel, and they shall define the of the gross earnings of said leased railroad and property shall member of the State Board of Trustees of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad; member of the State Board of Trustees of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad; Boston Railroad Company, and shall pay therefor an annual rental equal same continues in force, said Troy and Boston Railroad Company may And if the Eastern Railroad Company shall so fake the said property of easterly of such new location; and the Boston and Maine Railroad shall Boston Railroad Company into one corporation, with authority to THE EFFECT OF STATE CONTROL OF THE TUNNEL LINE. THE EFFECT OF STATE CONTROL OF THE TUNNEL LINE. great extent control the whole railroad system of the State.

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  Minority Report of the Committee on Railways in Relation to the Hoosac Tunnel and the Railroads Leading Thereto With a bill to incorporate the State Board of Trustees of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad; also the speech delivered by Hon. E. P. Carpenter in the Senate of Massachusetts, June 3, 1873, in support of the same


id: 59379
title: Plain Concrete for Farm Use
author: Miller, T. A. H. (Thomas Arrington Huntington)
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  Portland cement concrete is the mass formed by mixing Portland cement, sand, gravel (or particles of other suitable materials), and water. In mixing concrete various proportions of cement, sand, gravel, and water of concrete produced is equal to the quantity of sand plus the gravel Table 1 shows the quantity of cement, sand, and gravel required under Forms are required to hold the concrete in place until it has attained The tendency is to use too much water in mixing concrete in a The mixed concrete should be deposited in the forms within from 20 to 30 Concrete which has set before it can be placed in the forms should not be Scum or laitance is likely to form on concrete when placed under water, [Illustration: Fig. 16.--Tremie for use in placing concrete under water.] The materials for water-tight concrete must be well graded, so as to


