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Identifier: publicworks52ridg (find matches)
Title: Public works
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Subjects: Municipal engineering
Publisher: Ridgewood, N.J. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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g engines of the Lidgerwood, Lambert, Lake-wood and Mundy types; two Linn 5-ton tractors; one 2-ton.\utotruck; two trailers; three Boston caravans; two tour-ing cars; twelve single and five double dump carts; twenty-seven IJ^-j-yard and 2-yard bottom dump wagons; thirty-rive 4-yard railroad dump cars; twelve IJ^-yard railroaddump cars; eight slip scrapers; twenty 3-yard and six1-yard skips; six 1-yard Stuebner buckets; several wagonsand buggies; fifty-six horses; two water carts; 8,750 linearfeet of narrow-gage railroad track; 3,000 linear feet of 50-pound rails; four Ingersoll-Rand air compressors; twoportable compressors; three air tanks; four steel guy der-ricks with 100-foot booms; one steel guy derrick with 90-foot boom; one stiffleg derrick; four travelling derrickswith 65 and 75-foot booms; one wooden stiffleg; onewooden guy derrick and two hand crab derricks; one 1,900-foot span cableway on main dam ; one stone aerial tram-way. 3.670 feet long with ten intermediate towers; one
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GENERAL, VIEW OF CONSTRUCTION WORK ON GIL.BOA DAM.Channel excavation is shown under way at the left. 208 PUBLIC WORKS Vol. 52. \o. 12 stone aerial tramway 2,650 long with two 4,100 foot cablesand one 7.500-foot cable and three 1 1/9-yard buckets; one3,300-ioot cement aerial tramway with two 3,600-foot andone 6.700-foot cables and 14 1/3 cubic yard buckets, andone S85-foot aerial sand tramway with a 1,400-foot and a1,200-foot cable and two lj4-yard buckets; two concretehoisting towers and cables; six 24-inch and one 12-inch beltconveyors; one No. 14 electric driven cyclone well drill;2,500 linear feet of spiral riveted pipe: 10,000 linear feet of4-inch air pipe: 200,000 feet of weatherproof covered cop-per wire; 20,000 feet of hard drawn copper wire; fourriveting guns; two chipping guns: three giant air drills;nine Oldham plug drills; one Oldham surface cutting drill:nine tripod drills; fourteen jackhammer drills; two blast-ing machines: six air augers; eight carbide lights; twenty-two

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