| 1847 - 648 sider
...Ibère are two barrels fixed in the engine boat, whir): are made to revolve round their centre pieces by the power of the engine, and, as they go round,...places, one barrel is bare and the other filled with the coll. The rope that is loosed falls, by its own gravity, to the bottom of the canal, so that there... | |
| 1847 - 654 sider
...tbere are two barrels fixed in the engine boat, vhkh are made to revolve round their centre piece* by the power of the engine, and, as they go round,...at either of the abovementioned places, one barrel ft bare and the other filled with the coil. The rope that is loosed bite, by its own gravity, to the... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1847 - 668 sider
...there are two barrels fixed in the engine boar, which are made to revolve round their centre pieces by the power of the engine, and, as they go round, they wind up one end of the ropo and let out th« other, so that, when the barge is at either of the abovementioned places, one... | |
| George Beadon - 1848 - 54 sider
...there are two barrels fixed in the engine-boat, which are made to revolve round their centre pieces by the power of the engine, and, as they go round, they wind up the one end of the rope, and let out the D other, so that when the barge is at either of the above-mentioned... | |
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