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Author : Robert Dale Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : OSU:32435002034817
Author : Owe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:972052483
Author : Robert Dale Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023272672
Author : Robert Dale Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1331881234
Excerpt from A Brief Practical Treatise on the Construction and Management of Plank Roads Laying Out; Passion for straightness great error. Valiant effort of courage and science. Rule as to circuit that maybe profitably made to avoid a hill. Case in point. Increase by divergence small. Divergence from air-line perpendicular as well as horizontal. Northern and southern slopes. Trestle-bridges replacing embankments. How a little forethought may save money. Two examples. Curves. How to run them. Little engineering required; but, when really necessary, bad economy not to employ it; Grades; Traction, what. On level railway; on plank road; on macadamized road; on earth road. Rule of increased traction on ascents. Easy grades more necessary on plank roads than on earth roads. Reason of this. Angle of repose. What should be the maximum grade on plank roads. Grade of 1 in 30 very desirable. Grades on Chittenango and Mount Vernon roads. Comparative draught thence resulting. Steep ascents, as on some New York roads, to be avoided. Loss thereby; Construction: Excavation and Embankment; Grading should be let out by contract. General specifications. Excavation and embankment should balance. Stone culverts, specification and cost. Wooden culverts. Saving by narrow embankment When it should not be adopted; Construction: Superstructure; Superstructure should be laid down by days' work. Solidity the essential. Drainage indispensable. Ditches. Longitudinal slopes. Width of road-bed and of plank track. Capability of single track. Turn-outs. Side-slant. Road-bed should be raised on flat ground. Stringers. How their ends should be supported. Their distance apart. How to make road permanently solid. Great evil and loss from neglecting this. Roller. Other tools. New York scraper. Number of hands in a party. Foreman. How much a party should lay. Mode of proceeding in laying. Important that plank should be in regular piles About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Robert Dale Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Highway law
ISBN : OCLC:224207999
Author : Robert Dale Owen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Highway law
ISBN : OCLC:224207999
Author : Andrew R. L. Cayton,Richard Sisson,Chris Zacher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1918 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253003492
This first-ever encyclopedia of the Midwest seeks to embrace this large and diverse area, to give it voice, and help define its distinctive character. Organized by topic, it encourages readers to reflect upon the region as a whole. Each section moves from the general to the specific, covering broad themes in longer introductory essays, filling in the details in the shorter entries that follow. There are portraits of each of the region's twelve states, followed by entries on society and culture, community and social life, economy and technology, and public life. The book offers a wealth of information about the region's surprising ethnic diversity -- a vast array of foods, languages, styles, religions, and customs -- plus well-informed essays on the region's history, culture and values, and conflicts. A site of ideas and innovations, reforms and revivals, and social and physical extremes, the Midwest emerges as a place of great complexity, signal importance, and continual fascination.
Author : J. Michael Geiger
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798823012423
Few mysteries are solved without questions remaining. This mystery too will leave the reader asking for more information about wagon life during the western migration, the draw of gold fields, and the lure of business and political ties, and much more. In all mysteries there is the intrigue and mental gymnastics of uncertainty, folklore, obscurity of fact. Our imagination leads us to travel the pathways provided by betrayal, greed, inference, and conjecture. These building footprints, forgotten and left to be covered by sand and time, provided the primary evidence of an untold piece of Colorado's story. The footprints have been sitting in the sand, unrecognized and unheralded, even their birth story was unknown. Are these relics of the past centuries old, or merely decades? There was no known current recognition, no known builder, purpose, history or name identity. Their history and the story they represent covers more than six states, and although just footprints, they may have been unique and of major significance for the period. They also could signify something to decorate the pages of infamy and betrayal. As the trail winds through many states, false leads, and familiar pioneer names, there emerges a sense of historical significance pointing to even more historical associations and questions. There is intrigue regarding those involved with what these building footprints represent, from life on the prairie, to those desiring fame and fortune by spinning their influence from Colorado to Washington DC. only to find that today, in many aspects, this story continues.
Author : Garrett Epps
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466851252
A riveting narrative of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, an act which revolutionized the U.S. constitution and shaped the nation's destiny in the wake of the Civil War Though the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation inspired optimism for a new, happier reality for blacks, in truth the battle for equal rights was just beginning. Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's successor, argued that the federal government could not abolish slavery. In Johnson's America, there would be no black voting, no civil rights for blacks. When a handful of men and women rose to challenge Johnson, the stage was set for a bruising constitutional battle. Garrett Epps, a novelist and constitutional scholar, takes the reader inside the halls of the Thirty-ninth Congress to witness the dramatic story of the Fourteenth Amendment's creation. At the book's center are a cast of characters every bit as fascinating as the Founding Fathers. Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, among others, understood that only with the votes of freed blacks could the American Republic be saved. Democracy Reborn offers an engrossing account of a definitive turning point in our nation's history and the significant legislation that reclaimed the democratic ideal of equal rights for all U.S. citizens.
Author : Daniel APPLETON (AND CO.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018219862
Author : New York State Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Libraries
ISBN : PRNC:32101073447516
Author : New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Government publications
ISBN : CORNELL:31924093349896
Author : Daniel B. Klein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Plank roads
ISBN : NWU:35556025704347
Author : Lawrence County Historical Society (Lawrence County, Ill.)
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Illinois
ISBN : 9781563112256
This is a 175th anniversary history/family history.
Author : New York State Historical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : WISC:89065715732
