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Identifier: manualofcorpora1859newy (find matches)
Title: Manual of the corporation of the city of New York
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Common Council Willis, Samuel J Valentine, David T. (David Thomas), 1801-1869
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Publisher: New York
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foot square, is bolted on each side of the coffer, as at M, with two trans-verse logs dovetailed into them, of which the weight and leverage retain the coffer in a horizontal position. The next and last thing to be discovered, was how to make the boat arrive at the bridge without the aid of boat-hooks, or any pushing, or pulling, or loss of time, or shock, the latter being the most material to guard against; for this purpose the dock which receives her is one hundred and eighty feet long, seventy wide; the bridge is fastened to the middle of the bulkhead. The boat being only thirty feet wide, and the dock seventy, leaves twenty feet vacant on each of her sides; in these, twenty feet spaces,and in the water, there are floating stages, made of pine logs, which lie parallel to the boat for thirty feet and then run diagonally to the extreme end of the wharves,so that the boat, when coming in, hits within the seventy feet, and the stages guide her direct to the bridge. The stages are indicated N N.
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Image: Fulton Ferry Boat "OVER," built in 1840. page 609 To prevent shocks, there are two pieces of timber, each eight inches square, as at 0, which move on rollers, and run out between the bridge and cofter; the two are connected by a cross bar P, and under the bridge by another crossbar Q. To this latter cross bar, and on each side of the bridge, there are ropes fastened, which ropes pass under pullers at S, descend and fasten to buckets at T,which buckets of oak, strongly hooped with iron, are fifteen inches in diameter, six feet long, and when full of water will weigh about one thousand eight hundred pounds. When the fenders 0 are projected to the position delineated, which is about ten feet from the bridge, the buckets are down in the water, leaving their upper rim about three inches above the surface. W is the weight of the buckets,■which drives the fenders out of their present position. Each bucket has four holes in the bottom, of an inch diameter, by which the water enters as they descend, and which lets out the water as they rise. I

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