 | William Laxton - Architecture - 1841 - 534 pages
...balance of about four tons weight appended to each ; these weights would hold the chains •ufficiently extended to enable them to resist the lateral action...troughshaped triangular bracing, which would render it quite stiff. He was an advocate for bringing the main chains down to the platform, as at the Hammersmith... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1841 - 508 pages
...platform, touching respectively the opposite sides of the centre of the bridge, and thence exteuding to similar points on the other pyramid : there they...Bridge would have beneath it a complete system of trough- shaped triangular bracing, which would render it quite stifE He was an advocate for bringing... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1841 - 554 pages
...sufficiently extended to enahle them to resist the lateral action of the strongest winds without their heing so rigid as to endanger any part of the structure. By this contrivance the platform would he kept firm, which was the chief point to he attained. In all suspension hridges the roadways had... | |
 | William Newton - 1842 - 528 pages
...pyramid : there they were attached to two levers, the ends of which were connected with a counter-balance of about four tons weight appended to each ; these...trough-shaped triangular bracing, which would render it quite stiff. He was an advocate for bringing the main chains down to the platform, as at the Hammersmith... | |
 | Arts, Useful - 1842 - 530 pages
...pyramid : there they were attached to two levers, the ends of which were connected with a counter-balance of about four tons weight appended to each ; these...trough-shaped triangular bracing, which would render it quite stiff. He was an advocate for bringing the main chains down to the platform, as at the Hammersmith... | |
 | 1842 - 934 pages
...two levers, the ends of which were connected with a counterbalance of about four tons weight applied to each; these weights would hold the chains sufficiently...bridges the roadways had been made too flexible, and 'he'slightest force was sufficient to cause vibration and undulation. The platform of the Clifton Bridge... | |
 | Meteorology - 1842 - 886 pages
...two levers, the ends of which were connected with a counterbalance of about four tons weight applied to each; these weights would hold the chains sufficiently...bridges the roadways had been made too flexible, and the'slightest force was sufficient to cause vibration and undulation. The platform of the Clifton Bridge... | |
 | 1841 - 596 pages
...under his direction. The span would be seven hundred feet, and the height above the water about 200 feet He intended to apply the system of brace chains...trough-shaped triangular bracing, which would render it quite stiff. He was an advocate for bringing the main chains down to the platform, as at the Hammersmith... | |
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... of about four tons weight appended to each ; these weights would hold the chains sufficiently extended to enable them to resist the lateral action of the strongest winds without their being so rigid as to endanger any part of the structure. By this... 