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On Skew Bridges, and on the Construction of Falls Skew Bridge Over the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia
Falls Bridge, over the River Schuylkill, on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, is a stone structure with six arches of eighty-three feet span and twenty-four feet raise. Each arch consists of eight square-built ribs of three by three feet in the section, and each rib sits eighteen inches back of its fellow, making a skew of twelve feet in a width of twenty-four.
On Skew Bridges, and on the Construction of Falls Skew Bridge Over the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia
Falls Bridge, over the River Schuylkill, on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, is a stone structure with six arches of eighty-three feet span and twenty-four feet raise. Each arch consists of eight square-built ribs of three by three feet in the section, and each rib sits eighteen inches back of its fellow, making a skew of twelve feet in a width of twenty-four.
On Skew Bridges, and on the Construction of Falls Skew Bridge Over the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia
Steele, J. Dutton (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 1 ; 209-213
2021-01-01
51872-01-01 pages
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