item: #1 of 30
          id: 12299
      author: Record, Samuel J. (Samuel James)
       title: The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing
        date: None
       words: 57988
      flesch: 78
     summary: All | | E |---------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------| | S | Relative | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | S | crushing | | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 103.4 | 100.8 | 101.5 | 107.5 | 102.7 | 103.8 | 113.9 | 105.5 | 107.9 | 121.3 | 108.3 | 116.4 | 128.8 | 110.0 |118.9 | | I | strength | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | O | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | N | Speed-strength | | 0.017 |(0.006)|(0.009)| 0.033 | 0.012 | 0.016 | 0.047 | 0.021 | 0.029 | 0.053 | 0.027 | 0.039 | 0.060 | 0.023 | 0.049 |(0.052)|(0.015)|(0.040)| | | modulus, _T_ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |---+---------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------| | | Speed of crosshead. Experiments on the strength of treated timber, p. 18.] |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | TABLE XVI | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | EFFECT OF STEAMING ON THE STRENGTH OF GREEN LOBLOLLY PINE | | (Forest Service, Cir. 39) | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | Cylinder conditions | Strength | | |---------------------------------+--------------------------------------------| | | Steaming | Static | Impact | | | |---------------------------------+---------------------+----------| Average | | Treatment | | | |
    keywords: .68 |; .69 |; basswood |; beech |; compression |; condition |; elm |; fir |; grain |; hardwoods |; inch |; oak |; pine |; pounds |; shear |; species |; spruce |; square |; strength |; sugar |; sycamore |; white |; | arborvitã; | ash; | birch; | cedar; | cent; | conifers; | douglas; | fibre; | hackberry; | hemlock; | inches; | limit; | longleaf; | m.; | maple; | modulus; | ratio; | red; | redwood; | stress; | surface; | swamp; | table; | tamarack; | tests; | tupelo; | ture; | water; | |; | |-----------------+----------+---------+------------+----------+---------+----------+---------+----------+---------+----------+---------+-----------+-------------------+----------|; |-----------------+----------+---------+------------+----------+---------+----------+---------+----------+---------+----------+---------+-----------+-------------------+----------| |; |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |
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        item: #2 of 30
          id: 16440
      author: Campbell, J. L.
       title: The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Carrizozo to Santa Rosa, N. Mex. American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, No. 1170
        date: None
       words: 9892
      flesch: 79
     summary: The system includes 116 miles of wood pipe, 19 miles of iron pipe, one 422,000,000-gal. The first 40 miles of wood pipe was furnished by the Wykoff Wood Pipe Company, of Elmira, N.Y., and the Michigan Pipe Company, of Bay City, Mich., delivered the remaining 76 miles.
    keywords: day; iron; line; miles; pipe; pressure; reservoir; water; wood; wood pipe
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        item: #3 of 30
          id: 16938
      author: Meem, J. C.
       title: Pressure, Resistance, and Stability of Earth American Society of Civil Engineers: Transactions, Paper No. 1174, Volume LXX, December 1910
        date: None
       words: 26559
      flesch: 63
     summary: Meem should be congratulated, both in regard to the highly interesting theories which he advances on the subject of sand pressures--the pressures of subaqueous material--and on his interesting experiments in connection therewith. Certain it is that no one has yet found, in ground free from water pressure or abnormal conditions, any evidence of greater pressure at the bottom of a deep shaft or tunnel than that near the surface.
    keywords: arch; area; depth; earth; experiments; fig; friction; material; piston; pressure; sand; water; water pressure; weight; writer; | |; | ||
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        item: #4 of 30
          id: 17302
      author: Cresson, Benjamin Franklin
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad The Terminal Station - West
        date: None
       words: 12524
      flesch: 74
     summary: East side of 9th Avenue, North of 32nd St. looking West, showing rock excavation and supports of 9th Avenue structures. East side of 9th Ave. looking North from 31st St., showing rock excavation and supports of 9th Ave. structures.
    keywords: avenue; concrete; excavation; fig; girders; ninth; plate; rock; wall; west; work
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        item: #5 of 30
          id: 17776
      author: Gregory, W. B. (William Benjamin)
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Tests of Creosoted Timber, Paper No. 1168
        date: None
       words: 6804
      flesch: 94
     summary: | I | T | 6.00 | 15.69 | 1,934 | 20,000 | 38,000 | 2,915 | 5,540 | 0.465 | | | | | | | | | | | II[A]| T | 6.37 | 15.81 | 2,098 | 20,000 | 43,450 | 2,722 | 5,918 | 0.380 | II | B | 6.41 | 16.41 | 2,360 | 16,000 | 25,040 | 1,999 | 3,130 | 0.430 | | | | | | | | | | | III | T | 5.88 | 15.68 | 1,871 | 24,000 | 45,130 | 3,608 | 6,785 | 0.535 | III | B | 5.88 | 15.90 | 1,965 | 21,000 | 35,190 | 3,054 | 5,120 | 0.515 | | | | | | | | | | | IV | T | 6.00 | 15.43 | 1,835 | 22,000 | 38,425 | 3,320 | 5,810 | 0.465 | IV | B | 6.12 | 15.87 | 2,032 | 22,000 | 35,500 | 3,090 | 4,983 | 0.660 |Section,|Span,| | of | | B
    keywords: + =; = +; = =; = |; | =; | b; | |
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        item: #6 of 30
          id: 17777
      author: Klapp, Eugene
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Reinforced Concrete Pier Construction
        date: None
       words: 2729
      flesch: 68
     summary: It would seem that for many highway bridges of short span, causeways, and similar structures, the use of similar caissons would prove economical and permanent, and that they might be used very largely to the exclusion of cribwork, which, after a decade or so, becomes a source of constant maintenance charges, besides never presenting an attractive appearance. The writer's attention had shortly before been called to the successful use of reinforced concrete caissons on the Great Lakes for breakwater construction, by Major W. V. Judson, M. Am.
    keywords: caissons; concrete; pier; piles; water
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        item: #7 of 30
          id: 18012
      author: Temple, E. B.
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Meadows Division and Harrison Transfer Yard. Paper No. 1153
        date: None
       words: 3316
      flesch: 54
     summary: In this Division the following bridges were necessary: Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Division, Passenger and Newark Freight Tracks; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Morris and Essex Division; Newark and Jersey City Turnpike; Public Service Corporation Right of Way; Erie Railroad, Newark and Paterson Branch; Belleville Road, and Jersey City Water Company's Pipe Line; Greenwood Lake Railroad (Erie Railroad), Arlington Branch; Hackensack River; Greenwood Lake Railroad (Erie Railroad), Reconstructed Line; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Boonton Branch; Erie Railroad, Passenger Tracks; Bridge of 11 spans over proposed yard tracks, Erie Railroad; County Road; Secaucus Road; New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad; Northern Railroad of New Jersey. These trains will pick up and discharge Pennsylvania Railroad passengers at the Harrison Transfer Station, so that all passengers bound for lower New York City, who desire to use the tunnel service, will make the change at Harrison instead of at Jersey City as at present.
    keywords: division; harrison; new; pennsylvania; railroad; york
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        item: #8 of 30
          id: 18065
      author: Noble, Alfred
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Division. Paper No. 1152
        date: None
       words: 5124
      flesch: 57
     summary: Within a few hundred feet (Plate XIV), the tracks are reduced to two, each passing into a single tube, the two tunnels under each street being formed in one excavation, the distance between center lines of tunnels being 20 ft. 4 in. The effect of these two changes--type of tunnel and grade--was to lower the roof of the tunnels at Fifth Avenue about 15 ft., which made it practicable to avoid open cutting east of Sixth Avenue.
    keywords: avenue; east; lines; river; street; tunnels; work
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        item: #9 of 30
          id: 18229
      author: Raymond, Charles W.
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Paper No. 1150
        date: None
       words: 12035
      flesch: 51
     summary: The New Jersey corporation was entitled the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Railroad Company, and the New York corporation, the Pennsylvania, New York and Long Island Railroad Company. 7._--The New York Connecting Railroad, extending through a part of the Borough of Queens and crossing the East River by a bridge at Ward's and Randall's Islands to Port Morris, N. Y. _
    keywords: = =; avenue; city; construction; east; line; new york; pennsylvania; pennsylvania railroad; railroad; railroad company; river; station; street; traffic; tunnels
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        item: #10 of 30
          id: 18408
      author: Clarke, George C.
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157
        date: None
       words: 21754
      flesch: 75
     summary: | ... | | 3 {165 + 95.4} | | | | | | | | {166 + 41.2} | 355.20 | 24.50 | 8.34 | ... | ...
    keywords: --+------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------/ |; ------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------/ |; avenue; line; material; points |; rock; section; wall; | +; | d; | e; | f; | h.s; | pier; | street; | |
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        item: #11 of 30
          id: 18548
      author: Jacobs, Charles M. (Charles Mattathias)
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, The North River Division. Paper No. 1151
        date: None
       words: 8942
      flesch: 60
     summary: In conjunction with schemes for river tunnels, complete plans for rapid transit subways for New York City, very much on the line of the present rapid transit subways, were also prepared for Mr. Corbin by the writer. Meantime, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, as a result of its investigation of the matter, in June, 1891, thought that the most feasible project seemed to be to build tunnels for rapid transit passenger service from its Jersey City Station to the lower part of New York, connecting there with the rapid transit systems of that city, and also extending under New York on the line of Cortlandt Street, with stations and passenger lifts at the main streets and elevated railroads.
    keywords: avenue; city; company; engineer |; new; new york; pennsylvania railroad; railroad; river; tunnels; york city; | +; | |
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        item: #12 of 30
          id: 18722
      author: Woodard, S. H.
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159
        date: None
       words: 27468
      flesch: 81
     summary: 25, '08|Mar. 3, '08| --------------+-----------------+---------+---------+------------+------------+ --------------+------+--------+--------+--------------------------------------+ | | |Rate of | | |Number| |progress| | | of | Linear |in feet | | Material. +50 | 90+38.66|Sept 21, '07|Jan. 8, '08| --------------+-----------------+---------+---------+------------+------------+ --------------+------+--------+--------+--------------------------------------+ | | |Rate of | | |Number| |progress| | | of | Linear |in feet | | Material.
    keywords: --------------+------+--------+--------+--------------------------------------+ |; --------------+-----------------+-------------------+-------------------------+ |; = =; feet |; tunnel; | --------------+------+--------+--------+--------------------------------------+; | =; | bench; | date; | earth; | east; | material; | method; | north; | rock; | station; | |; | |---------+---------+------------+------------+; | |rate; |---------+---------+------------+------------+ |
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        item: #13 of 30
          id: 18747
      author: Randolph, B. S. (Beverly S.)
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Locomotive Performance On Grades Of Various Lengths, Paper No. 1172
        date: None
       words: 5776
      flesch: 75
     summary: |1906 ============================================================================ ============================================================================== |Source of Data. ======================================================================== Length of grade, in miles | |
    keywords: = =; = weight; = |source; drivers; grade; miles; | |
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        item: #14 of 30
          id: 18748
      author: Kempkey, A.
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 A Concrete Water Tower, Paper No. 1173
        date: None
       words: 5842
      flesch: 73
     summary: ---------------------+---------+--------+----------+---------------+--------- | Rate | | | | | per | Amount.| Complete.| Labor. 202.79| 690.56| | 1.676 | | | | |
    keywords: = =; = |; concrete; tank; | =; | labor; | material; | |
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        item: #15 of 30
          id: 18785
      author: Various
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Final Report of Special Committee on Rail Sections, Paper No. 1177
        date: None
       words: 3872
      flesch: 66
     summary: Rails which, by reason of surface imperfections, are not accepted as No. 1 rails, will be classed as No. 2 rails, but rails containing physical defects which impair their strength, shall be rejected. The results of their deliberations have been presented to the Society in their reports presented on-- January 21st, 1903[B] 18th, 1905 17th, 1906 16th, 1907 July 9th, 1907 December 6th, 1907 18th, 1908 November 30th, 1909 As previously reported to you, the Rail Committee of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association is also acting for the American Railway Association; and the latter organization has guaranteed to it the necessary funds to make exhaustive tests and observations as to the wear, breakage, etc., etc., of steel rails.
    keywords: + =; = +; = =; rails; specifications
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        item: #16 of 30
          id: 18795
      author: Bensel, J. A. (John Anderson)
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Address at the 42d Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, June 21st, 1910, Paper No. 1178
        date: None
       words: 2249
      flesch: 51
     summary: We have a degree of civil engineer, regarded in its narrowest sense, of mining engineer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and by necessity it would seem as if we should shortly add some particular title to designate the engineer who flies. The Society itself has adopted very broad lines in admission to membership, classing as civil engineers all who are properly such; and there is good reason for the serious consideration of the term at this time, as we cannot fail to recognize a tendency in State and other governments to legislate as to the right to practice engineering.
    keywords: engineers; profession; society; time
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        item: #17 of 30
          id: 19037
      author: Mason, Francis
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
        date: None
       words: 12348
      flesch: 76
     summary: | | | (West of shaft.) | | | (East of shaft.)
    keywords: + =; = +; = =; fig; heading; plate; rock; shaft; street; tunnel |; work; | =; | |
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        item: #18 of 30
          id: 26052
      author: How, Louis
       title: James B. Eads
        date: None
       words: 21929
      flesch: 68
     summary: For some hundreds of miles the crookedest of great rivers, it varies frequently in width and velocity and is full of shoals; then for hundreds more, though uniform in width, it often rises higher than its shores, and is confined in artificial levees, which it continually breaks down. Besides the frequent voyages which he was ordered to take for the sake of his health,--and which, as he was a very bad sailor, he said were real medicine,--he was in demand here and there, in places miles apart, for professional services; and then, too, he visited many engineering works in various remote lands,--river improvements, docks, the Suez Canal.
    keywords: boats; bridge; channel; eads; engineer; feet; good; government; gunboats; jetties; life; louis; man; miles; mississippi; new; pass; people; river; saint; ship; time; war; water; work; years
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        item: #19 of 30
          id: 26131
      author: Carnegie, Andrew
       title: James Watt
        date: None
       words: 57008
      flesch: 66
     summary: Several orders for Watt engines had been received, and as much depended upon the success of the first, Watt resolved to superintend its erection himself. One solicitors bill was for no less than $30,000, which caused Watt years afterward, when speaking of an enormous charge to say that it would not have disgraced a London solicitor.
    keywords: air; boulton; business; cylinder; day; days; engine; father; friend; genius; glasgow; good; heat; home; horse; invention; inventor; james watt; kind; life; like; little; london; making; man; men; mind; model; new; patent; piston; power; professor; roebuck; science; small; society; soho; son; steam; steam engine; time; use; water; watt; watt engine; work; workmen; world; years; young
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        item: #20 of 30
          id: 27632
      author: American Society of Civil Engineers
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXXII, June, 1911 Water Purification Plant, Washington, D. C. Results of Operation.
        date: None
       words: 2298
      flesch: 54
     summary: Given Turbidity in Applied Water.~ ==========+================================================= Turbidity | of | ~Temperature, in Degrees, Fahrenheit.~ applied |---------+---------+---------+---------+--------- water. | ... | 12.0[1] ==========+=========+=========+=========+=========+========= [Footnote 1: For an average turbidity = 150.
    keywords: + =; = +; = =
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        item: #21 of 30
          id: 30990
      author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
       title: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16
        date: None
       words: 162682
      flesch: 65
     summary: Other men pay, and pay dearly, for pleasures less desirable. I have come to grief over the moon in Prince Otto, and, so soon as that was pointed out to me, adopted a precaution which I recommend to other men--I never write now without an almanac.
    keywords: air; appearance; artificers; artist; author; beacon; bell; bell rock; board; boat; book; building; business; case; character; course; crew; day; days; dear; deck; evening; experience; eye; eyes; face; fact; family; feet; god; good; grandfather; half; hand; head; heart; high; hope; hours; house; human; kind; landing; leave; letter; life; light; lighthouse; literature; little; look; love; man; mankind; manner; master; men; mind; money; morning; nature; new; number; o'clock; operations; past; people; place; pleasure; point; poor; present; public; rock; room; sea; seamen; second; sense; service; set; ship; smeaton; smith; society; soul; spirit; state; stevenson; stone; story; sunday; tender; thing; thought; tide; time; truth; verse; vessel; view; water; way; weather; wind; words; work; world; writer; years; young
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        item: #22 of 30
          id: 34942
      author: Newman, John
       title: Scamping Tricks and Odd Knowledge Occasionally Practised upon Public Works
        date: None
       words: 63923
      flesch: 83
     summary: I have known screw piles to penetrate hard and dense sand, gravel, soft sandy ground, limy gravel, loose silt, limy clay ground something like marl, stiff mud, chalk, clay, marl, and all kinds of water-deposited soil, and in almost every earth except firm rock, but it is not advisable to use them for anything much harder than fine sandy gravel, for the blades must then be strained very much and the pile and screw may be injured. Pile-driving is different to masonry, and I always read the specification for pile work, and then judge whether and how a bit 'extra' is to be obtained, and guess as to the knowledge of those I have to deal with, and act accordingly.
    keywords: 8vo; bit; blade; book; c.e; cast; cement; chance; chapter; clay; cloth; concrete; course; crown; day; depth; driving; edition; end; engineer; extra; feet; figs; game; good; ground; half; illustrations; inch; inches; iron; kind; length; line; men; piles; place; plates; power; profit; right; rock; sand; saw; screw; screwing; sir; soil; steam; thing; thought; timber; time; use; want; water; way; work
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        item: #23 of 30
          id: 39785
      author: Vogel, Robert M.
       title: Tunnel Engineering: A Museum Treatment
        date: None
       words: 14322
      flesch: 61
     summary: The course of tunnel work is not subject to an overall preliminary survey; the engineer is faced with not only the inability to anticipate general contingencies common to all engineering work, but with the peculiar and often overwhelming unpredictability of the very basis of his work. An extreme attitude perhaps, and one which by no means adds to Haskin's stature, but a not unusual one in tunnel work at the time.
    keywords: air; brunel; drill; engineering; feet; figure; ground; hoosac; illustration; lining; model; museum; rock; shield; subway; thames; thames tunnel; tunnel; tunnel work; tunneling; water; work
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        item: #24 of 30
          id: 40427
      author: Wentworth, Tappan
       title: Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866.
        date: None
       words: 38182
      flesch: 58
     summary: upon each and every share of said six: hundred thousand dollars should have actually been paid in, and seven miles of their railroad and one thousand lineal feet of their said tunnel under the Hoosac, in one or more sections, of size sufficient for one or more railroad tracks, should have been completed. $100,000, when ten miles of their said railroad, in one or two sections, and ten thousand lineal feet of their said tunnel, in one or more sections, should be completed. $100,000, when fifteen miles of their said railroad, in one or two sections, and three thousand lineal feet of their said tunnel, in one or more sections, should be completed. $100,000, when twenty miles of their said railroad, in one or two sections, and four thousand lineal feet of their said tunnel, in one or more sections should be completed. $100,000, when twenty-five miles of their said railroad, in one or two sections, and five thousand lineal feet of their said tunnel, in one or more sections, should be completed. $100,000, when thirty miles of their railroad, in one or two sections, and six thousand lineal feet of their tunnel, should be completed. $100,000, when thirty-two miles of their railroad, in one or two sections, including all the line east of Florida, and seven thousand lineal feet of their tunnel, in one or more sections, should be completed; and for each additional portion or portions of said tunnel of fifteen hundred feet, in one or more sections, completed by said company, $100,000, subject to the condition that the last $200,000 should be reserved until said company, or their successors, should open their railroad for use from Greenfield to the line of the State in Williamstown; and subject also to the condition, that, prior to the second delivery of scrip, thirty per cent. Also such alterations in the location and dimensions of said tunnel as will render it suitable and proper for use, in accordance with the spirit and intent of the 224th chapter of the Acts of 1854.
    keywords: = =; act; contract; corporation; dollars; east; end; feet; greenfield railroad; haupt; railroad; railroad company; said; scrip; shaft; state; time; treasurer; troy; tunnel; west; work
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        item: #25 of 30
          id: 40514
      author: Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals
       title: Minority Report of the Committee on Railways in Relation to the Hoosac Tunnel and the Railroads Leading Thereto With a bill to incorporate the State Board of Trustees of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad; also the speech delivered by Hon. E. P. Carpenter in the Senate of Massachusetts, June 3, 1873, in support of the same
        date: None
       words: 15135
      flesch: 57
     summary: They shall appoint a treasurer, a general manager, whenever they deem such an officer necessary, one or more superintendents and such other agents as may be required for the operation of said railroads and tunnel, and they shall define the duties and fix the compensation of such officers and agents. They shall establish rates for the transportation of passengers and merchandise, and make contracts and arrangements with connecting roads in relation to joint rates and joint business, and they may do all other things, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act and the general laws in relation to rail roads, which may be necessary for the efficient and economical operation of said railroads and tunnel. SECT.
    keywords: board; boston; business; control; fitchburg railroad; line; new; railroad; railroad company; state; trustees; tunnel; tunnel line; tunnel railroad
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        item: #26 of 30
          id: 40709
      author: Piper, John J.
       title: Facts and Figures Concerning the Hoosac Tunnel
        date: None
       words: 18647
      flesch: 58
     summary: Should our friend of the Salem Gazette, or any of the editors who quote Mr. F. W. Bird, and write short paragraphs, more flippantly than intelligently, about the Hoosac Tunnel, chance to be at the freight yard of the Fitchburg Railroad in Charlestown, on the arrival of a train of New York Central Railroad cars, laden with flour, grain, or other products of the West, he would doubtless be as much puzzled to know how they got there, as he would be, if, standing at the heading of the tunnel, he should endeavor to reconcile his situation (half a mile from daylight) with the calculations, statements and predictions of Mr. Bird and other opponents of the Tunnel enterprise. It is gratifying to know from more reliable authority than the intimation of Mr. Bird, that Mr. Brooks did justify the opinion which is generally entertained, of his good sense and judgment, by contemplating that amazing folly, and the only evidence of serious mismanagement on his part, which Mr. Bird can produce, is that he did not, at once execute his purpose, lay the rails and put the road in operation from Greenfield to the mountain.
    keywords: = =; bird; boston; cost; feet; freight; great; hoosac; miles; new; power; railroad; road; state; time; tunnel; western; work; years; | |
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        item: #27 of 30
          id: 42149
      author: Hewett, Bertram Henry Majendie
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The North River Tunnels. Paper No. 1155
        date: None
       words: 72249
      flesch: 81
     summary: | | | of | per | per | per | powder | powder| of | | |simi- |linear |linear|linear| per | per |powder| | |lar |foot of| foot | foot | linear | foot | per | | |head- |tunnel | of | of | foot of |drilled|cubic | | |ings | | Paid | $ | $ | $ | |Pounds.
    keywords: + =; = +; = =; = v=-groove; = |; b |; cubic |; description |; e |; h |; iron =; r |; ring |; section |; t |; work |; w| |; y |; | +; | ----+----+-------+--------+-------+-------+-------------+--------|; | =; | ave; | bench; | cast; | cost; | erection; | excavation; | f|; | g; | i|; | labor; | lining; | lumber; | m; | mica; | n; | o|; | shield; | time; | total; | tunnel; | |; | |---------+--------+--------+-----+-----+------+------+-------|; | |0; | |august; | |pockets; | |s; |$18.97 =; |$3.20 =; |---------+--------+--------+-----+-----+------+------+-------| |; |25| |; |26| |; |27| |; |28 |; |a |; |june |; |p |
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        item: #28 of 30
          id: 43055
      author: Various
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910, Start/End Papers The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad
        date: None
       words: 4133
      flesch: 68
     summary: Plan and Profile, East River Tunnels 1152 71 XIV. Tunneling in Compressed Air, Air-Lock, 1159 425 Caisson, etc., East River Tunnels LXV.
    keywords: company; deans; east; railroad; river; soc; tunnels; work; | |
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        item: #29 of 30
          id: 45735
      author: American Society of Civil Engineers
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, December, 1910
        date: None
       words: 6314
      flesch: 67
     summary: In the same year Mr. Brown was appointed Chief Engineer of the Franklin and Abbeville Railroad and built that road. Mr. Brown was born in Burnside, Orange County, N.Y., in August, 1856, and received his early education in the schools of that town.
    keywords: accidents; company; concrete; der; discussion; engineer; fuels; investigations; john; materials; new; soc; van; water; work
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        item: #30 of 30
          id: 59379
      author: Miller, T. A. H. (Thomas Arrington Huntington)
       title: Plain Concrete for Farm Use
        date: None
       words: 10162
      flesch: 71
     summary: Portland cement concrete is the mass formed by mixing Portland cement, sand, gravel (or particles of other suitable materials), and water. The bulletin discusses the requirements of good concrete and describes the making and placing of plain concrete according to the best practice.
    keywords: cement; concrete; feet; fig; forms; gravel; materials; mixing; sand; use; water; work
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