The two outside longitudinal girders of deck spans are 72 inches deep and the other 36 inches.
The tops of the towers have X-bracing and the connecting spans have two panels of intermediate vertical sway bracing between the three pairs of longitudinal girders.
The convex or outer wall of the ring is about eight spans thick; the concave, three; the intermediate walls are one, or perhaps one and a half.
The storm has subsided, and far beneath my feet a magnificent rainbow spans the plain, and dips one end of its variegated beauty in the sky-blue waters of the lake.
Defn: A type of bridge for smallspans in which the floor girders are rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel legs, driven into the round as piling, or resting on mudsills.
Defn: The threshold of a door, when a separate piece from the floor or landing; -- so called because it spans and covers the joint between two floors.
The crowning contest took place at the Long Bridge of Seta, which spans the waters of Lake Biwa at the place where they narrow to form the Seta River.
At the lower temple on Mount Lao the camellias[231] are twenty feet in height, and many spans in circumference.
Go down from the central height, and stand on the bridge which spans the Via Appia of Perugia, a strange namesake for the Via Appia of Rome.
The Arch of Augustus, the barrier between the older and the newer city, spans the steep and narrow street fittingly known as Via Vecchia.
A little to the northwest of Smithfield, where it spans a narrow and somewhat squalid street, stands the huge stone gateway of St. John's.
Here an airy railway bridge of one of the Vanderbilt roads spans it at two hundred feet height above the floor.
The Canadian Pacific Railway bridge spans the river, and skirting the southern shore is the Indian town of Caughnawaga, with its little old houses and light stone church, the "village on the rapids.
For larger spans he used wrought iron, in large and deep trussed frames, by which means a great degree of economy was attained in the employment of the material.
The continuous roadway girders were, in the case of the large span, supported at six points, and in those over the three land spans at four points.
On the occasion of the opening of the Corn Exchange by Prince Albert, one of the land spans was crowded with people, while the centre span was nearly empty.
On his later railways Mr. Brunel did not build large arches of brickwork or masonry, though he constructed several lofty and extensive viaducts of these materials with spans varying from 40 to 60 feet.
On the Devonshire side, the side spans pass over fields, and on the Cornwall side over the town of Saltash.
As the inclined timbers met the tops of the piers at a moderate inclination, the outward thrust caused by unequal loading of the spans of the viaduct was inconsiderable, and was easily counteracted by light iron ties.
It has two spans of 36 feet each on the square, but the obliquity is so great that the span on the skew is 89 feet.
To check this, tackles were made fast to three warps out to seaward, with two anchors to each, and brought to the spars with four spans to the inner block.
In 1841 Mr. Brunel constructed a timber bridge of fivespans to carry a public road over the Sonning cutting of the Great Western Railway, a short distance east of Reading.
So they broke the other spans and ran most of the rest of the rolling stock through the gaps.
The ebb tide runs very strongly, and, to avoid being carried against the bridge which spans the contracted harbour, it is prudent for the stranger to have an anchor in readiness.
The man we had engaged rowed the jolly-boat up for us, and as Wynne was enthusiastic about old buildings, we rowed him up the river to the New Mills, a very old mill, which spans the river Wensum near its entrance into the city.
By nine o'clock the bicycle is threading its way among the moving throngs on the pontoon bridge thatspans the Hooghli between Howrah and Calcutta, and half an hour later I am enjoying a refreshing bath in Cook's Adelphi Hotel.
A splendid bridge spansthe swollen torrent of the more formidable Markunda, and the well-metalled highway now cuts a wide straight swath through inundated jungle.
Jan Boom, who was driving the other waggon, was quick to follow my example, and to the accompaniment of a cannonade of whip cracking and ear-splitting yells, the two spans tugged out laboriously over the heavy miry road.
A ropeway erected on this system in Japan spans 4000 yds.
Another installation on this system, which serves an iron mine in Spain, spans 6500 yds.
Another feature of Brecon is the massive bridge of seven strongly buttressed arches which spans the Usk.
Close to Ship Mountain, where the plains begin, we reached the border of the tsetse region, and here we established a depot at which we left eight of our sixteen spans of oxen.
The convoy included eight wagons and sixteen spans of oxen.
The melee took place on the broad poplared plain which lies between the town and the river, and the old bridge of Castro Gonzalo spans the torrent a little below the Frenchmen's ford.
It spansthe frontier of Leon and Asturias, the boundary of the realms of cloud and sun.
The actual frontier is some dozen miles further, at the village of Valcarlos; where a modest little bridge, shepherded by a horde of sentries, spans the waters of the infant Nive.
The closeness of the pursuit, however, was checked by Paget in a sharp action at the old Roman bridge of Constantino, which spans a rocky gorge half-way up the hill; and Moore was enabled to reach Lugo without much further loss.
The three spans on the scoot dashed down the slope, but brought up abruptly on different sides of a tree.
Of course it was the saw and the two relieving spans of horses which did the greater part of the work, the four axmen doing little more than fell the tall birch-trees.
Asa Doane, one of our hired men at the farm, drove the three spans on the scoot; Addison and I sat on the load behind and held the halters of the led horses.
Hurrying home, we hitched up, drove to the station, and succeeded in engaging Morefield and his saw, with two spans of heavy horses.
They reached us in October, but we were several weeks getting them paired in spans and ready to go up into the woods for the winter's work.
In his "Reminiscences" he relates that the supplies of repair or reconstruction materials, as kept on hand by the Federals, included the interchangeable parts of bridge trusses, in spans of 60 ft.
The blowing up of the Tugela bridge at Colenso--a structure consisting of five iron lattice girder spans of 100 ft.
The viaducts and bridges were of timber, with spans of about 16 feet.
In order to obstruct the retreat of General Yule from Dundee a bridge of two 30-foot spans on the Dundee branch line was blown up by the Irish Brigade with a dynamite charge in the central pier.
Then Hermod rode slowly across the bridge thatspans the abyss between life and death, and found his way at last to the barred gates of Hel's dreadful home.
The little masters of Moufflou lived right in its shadow, where the bridge of stone spans the space between the houses and the church high in mid-air; and little Lolo loved the church with a great love.
The conservatory is fifty-six yards in length and twelve yards in width, and span-roofed, the spans being placed at right angles with the wall against which it is built.
In the centre of this square, and running parallel with the two end ranges, is a large late Peach House, 65 feet long by 24 feet wide: this spans the walk which connects this square with the lower terrace.
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