The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . 838 Fig. 8. inequality in the ground. At the upper part of the leg was the knee-joint m, about which it turned in the act of stepping forward: the length THE THAMES TUNNEL. 8b9 of th
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . 838 Fig. 8. inequality in the ground. At the upper part of the leg was the knee-joint m, about which it turned in the act of stepping forward: the length THE THAMES TUNNEL. 8b9 of the leg could be varied at pleasure, by means of the screw at m, turnedby the capstan-head at m, and a second auxiliary one in the middlebox N. The frames were also provided with slings, or arms, o, consisting ofstrong wrought-iron bars, attached at their upper extremities to thefloor-plates of the odd numbered frames, and at their lower extremitiesto the floor-plates of the even numbered frames ; the attachment con-sisting in an eye fitting to a circular pin projecting from the side of thefloor-plates, so as to allow a freedom of motion about these pins as acentre. The upper and lower extremities of the slings consisted of twoseparate bars of metal connected by two plates or cheeks, one on eitherside, through which, and the slings themselves, metal keys or wedgespassed, by the tightening up or driving back of w
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