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Title: Pick, shovel and pluck; further experiences "With men who do things"
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Bond, A. Russell (Alexander Russell), 1876-
Subjects: Technology Engineering
Publisher: New York, Munn & Co., Inc.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ythought that their time had come, too—fatal paralysis, youknow—^when they found they couldnt whistle. Yes, I said, they played that practical joke on us.But cant we go down and see that underground bridge? I am sorry to say that there is nothing for you to seenow, replied the engineer. The arch is already laid, andwe are filling in above it. It was lucky that you had clay to work in, remarkedMr. Hotchkiss. Yes, agreed the engineer; if it had been quicksand, itwould have been no simple matter to have laid the arch.Then he went on to explain how the steel work was to be setup, and gave us a good idea of how the finished bridge was to 230 Pick, Shovel and Pluck. look. The main towers of the bridge were to be enormousstructures rising to a height of two hundred and forty-fourfeet above the river, and the four-track roadway was goingto pass through them at a level of a hundred and thirty-fivefeet above mean high water, so that ships could safely passunder without lowering their masts.
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FIG. 19. SECTION OF THE LOWER CHORD AT Ay FIG. 20. *^That steel arch, said the engineer, will be the mostwonderful structure of its kind in the world. The distancebetween the towers will be a thousand and seventeen feet.It is hard to get an adequate conception of its size. Whenyou go back to your office this afternoon, you will pass thetallest building in the world. Imagine it fallen over on its The Greatest Steel Arch in the World, 231 side across Hell Gate, and then realize that it will notreach more than three-quarters of the way across the spanof this bridge. Then stand under the spire of TrinityChurch, and remember that this arch will overtop thatspire by twenty feet. In fact, there are many so-calledskyscrapers that cannot look over the top of this steel arch.It is going to be made up of the heaviest steel members everused in bridge work. The trusses will be a hundred andforty feet deep at the towers, and will taper to forty feet atthe crown, and the lower chords of those trusse

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