Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . tream sandbag dam was a very small one compared with the other. The masonry of the dam is of local granite, set in BritishPortland cement mortar. The interior is of rubble, set by hand,with about 40 per cent, of the bulk in cement mortar, four sand toone of cement. All the face-work is of coursed rock-faced ashlar,except the sluice linings, which are finely dressed. This was steam-crane and Italian masons work. There was a great pressure attimes to get a sectio
Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses . tream sandbag dam was a very small one compared with the other. The masonry of the dam is of local granite, set in BritishPortland cement mortar. The interior is of rubble, set by hand,with about 40 per cent, of the bulk in cement mortar, four sand toone of cement. All the face-work is of coursed rock-faced ashlar,except the sluice linings, which are finely dressed. This was steam-crane and Italian masons work. There was a great pressure attimes to get a section completed before the inevitable rise of theNile, and as much as 3600 tons of masonry were executed per day,chiefly at one point in the Dam. A triple line of railway, andnumerous trucks and locomotives, were provided to convey thematerials from quarries and stores to every part of the work. Themaximum number of men employed was 11,000, of whom 1000 wereEuropean masons and other skilled men (Figs. 3, 4 and 5). Mr. Wilfred Stokes, chief engineer and managing director ofMessrs. Ransomes and Rapier, was responsible for the detailed.
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