. Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries. and timber crib work filled with stone and the bank riprapped withlarge stone. 863. HIGH STRUCTURES. Eifel Tower,989 feet high. Washington Monument, 555 feethigh. Capitol at Washington, 307 feet Hall, Philadelphia, 547 feet cut represents the compar
. Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries. and timber crib work filled with stone and the bank riprapped withlarge stone. 863. HIGH STRUCTURES. Eifel Tower,989 feet high. Washington Monument, 555 feethigh. Capitol at Washington, 307 feet Hall, Philadelphia, 547 feet cut represents the comparative heightof the Eifel Tower, theWashington Monument andthe Capitol at City Hall, Philadel-phia, is the highest build-. PQQQQDOd ing in the world. 334 ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION, ETC. 864. GIGANTIC WHEEL, London, Eng. Three hundred feetin diameter, carried on two towers, 175 feet high, in which are saloonand balconies. The wheel is driven by a steel wire hawser ij inchesin diameter. There are two of these, one on each side, passing around
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