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... experiments will be costly , but will pay Mr. Telford in posthumous fame by furnishing a good article in his Biography : and for solidity of authority each experiment is tried 12 times , and the Medium result registered . I wish you to ...
... experiments will be costly , but will pay Mr. Telford in posthumous fame by furnishing a good article in his Biography : and for solidity of authority each experiment is tried 12 times , and the Medium result registered . I wish you to ...
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... experiments by means of a Bramah Hy- draulic Press and with the aid of Prof. Barlow of Woolwich carefully collated the results . The experiments were carried on for several more years and in 1817 Prof. Barlow published the results in ...
... experiments by means of a Bramah Hy- draulic Press and with the aid of Prof. Barlow of Woolwich carefully collated the results . The experiments were carried on for several more years and in 1817 Prof. Barlow published the results in ...
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... EXPERIMENTS ON THE RESISTANCE OF CANAL BARGES . These researches arose out of experiments made by a Mr. Houston on the Ardrossan Canal , with a view to increasing the speed of barges by reducing the resistance . They were made ' when ...
... EXPERIMENTS ON THE RESISTANCE OF CANAL BARGES . These researches arose out of experiments made by a Mr. Houston on the Ardrossan Canal , with a view to increasing the speed of barges by reducing the resistance . They were made ' when ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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