In the fall of 1856 the Montreal Telegraph Company laid a subaqueous cable across the St. Lawrence connecting Ogdensburg, N.
Compressed air in bottomless caissons has been increasingly employed in recent years for carrying down the subaqueous foundations of river quay walls, through alluvial deposits, to a solid stratum.
These were for the supply of compressed air to the working chambers of the subaqueous shield-driven tunnels.
These results are checked on permanent bench-marks in the subaqueous portion of the tunnels.
These have shown that in the subaqueous part of the tunnel there is a regular tidal fluctuation of elevation, the tunnel moving down as the tide rises, and rising again when the tide falls.
From the American Institute of Mining Engineers: William Laurence Saunders, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ingersoll-Rand Company and inventor of many devices for subaqueous and rock drilling.
The U-47-1/2 has joined many a nobler craft upon the wastes of subaqueous depths.
The sailor referred to the practice which submarines have of sending subaqueous signals to one another, signals which are frequently caught by listening war-ships of the Allies.
Where the sea floor has long received the waste of the land it has been built up to a smooth, subaqueous plain, gently shelving from the land.
The sheets of sediment which are slowly spread there tend to efface any inequalities, and to form a smooth and featureless subaqueous plain.
It should be carefully noted that the friction of the water through sand, which is always a large factor in subaqueous construction, is virtually eliminated here, as the water pressure has to be transmitted only some 6 or 8 in.
In order to show that the arching properties of sand are not destroyed under subaqueous conditions, a small sand-box, having a capacity of about 1 cu.
The next points to be considered are the more difficult problems concerningsubaqueous or saturated earths.
For a better understanding of the scope and purpose of this paper, the writer divides supersaturated or subaqueous materials into three classes: Class A.
The fisherman, too, - what an inexhaustible treasury of wonder lies at his feet, in the subaqueous world of the commonest mountain burn!
Not one second too soon had they succeeded in making good their entry into this subaqueous asylum.
On they floundered, despite their exhaustion; on along the subaqueous ridge, which at every step appeared to sink deeper into the water, as if the nearer to land the peninsula became all the more depressed.
Defn: Formed in or under water; as, subaqueous deposits.
Being under water, or beneath the surface of water; adapted for use under water; submarine; as, a subaqueous helmet.
It may have ensconced itself among weeds, or it may be burrowing in some subaqueous hole.
In this case the shores of the lagoon would be surrounded by two inclined ledges, one beneath the other, and both abruptly terminated by subaqueous cliffs.
Here only were the waves in motion, as if pressed by some subaqueous and invisible power; for beyond, scarcely a breath stirred the sleeping sea.
In his eagerness he had struck a subaqueous pipe of the jet.
Under these conditions, it is plain that the pressure on this, the subaqueous portion of the glacial bed, would be small, and become less and less until it becomes nothing at the point where the icebergs float away.
Some persons imagine that this may be due to the existence of subaqueous hot springs in the bed of the Lake--an opinion which may seem to be fortified by the fact that hot springs do occur at the northern extremity of the Lake.
The soundings indicated that there is a deep subaqueous channel traversing the whole Lake in its greatest dimension, or south and north.
After re-examining the elephant bed in 1834, I was no longer in doubt of its having been a regular subaqueous deposit.
In the lowest part of this division, beds of pure marl alternate with compact fissile tuff, resembling some of the subaqueous tuffs of Italy and Sicily called peperinos.
He considers (differently from Mr. Smith of Jordan Hill) these bodies to be corals, and the calcareous deposit to be of subaqueous origin.
All the tuff is compact, and includes numerous fragments of lava; it appears like a subaqueous deposit.
Sometimes a sort of subaqueous island, or elevated sandbank, is found, which gives him the very site he is in search of.
After a number of these subaqueous "reaches," he gets close in to the edge of the floe in such a position as to cut off the seal's retreat to the water.
The effort to clothe with intelligence subaqueous life must have been greatly strengthened among primitive nations by the musical sounds to which I have referred.
The first invention to promote subaqueous search was the diving-bell, a clumsy vessel which isolates the diver.
The subaqueous cable from Toultcha to Reni, on the Danube, is the sixth in the Ottoman Empire.
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