Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . ed onbeams laid inthe directionto be taken,beneath which^rollers are jl placed and &=• ? th(! power of tackle or of a capstan a]iplied to a rope properly secured to or around the house. The case of brick build-ings, especially those oflarge dimensions, pre-sents more dilticulty. A foundation is firstprepared on the new trench is next cutaround the outside
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . ed onbeams laid inthe directionto be taken,beneath which^rollers are jl placed and &=• ? th(! power of tackle or of a capstan a]iplied to a rope properly secured to or around the house. The case of brick build-ings, especially those oflarge dimensions, pre-sents more dilticulty. A foundation is firstprepared on the new trench is next cutaround the outside of theliouse, and the earth isalso removed from theinterioi, so as to exposethe foundation. , openings are made,into which are , at intervals of aliout threefeet, at right angles to the direction that the houseis to be moved, stout beams a which project aboutthree feet beyond the walls at each end. Undereach of tliese projecting ends a screw-jaik is placed,resting on a firm foundation, and, by the operationof these, the beams a are brougiit up into close con-tact with the superstructure, the intermediatemasonry being removed. .Wiove aiul resting uponthe beams a are placed beams b, througli openings.
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