Engineering

Pears Shilling Cyclopedia · 1898 · p. 74
Progre has been very great in Envelopes recent times. Amongst the great projects recently with completed or being now carried out are—the African ‘penny Transcontinental Telegraph, which has reached north into of Baltic and North Sea Canal, which was saves 120 miles fora Hartlepool, and 240 for a London EPA MIN ON DAS, boat going into the Baltic—the supplying mountains—the of Birming- 418 ham with water from the Welsh summit Black wall Tunnel—the Corinth Canal, which enorpart mously Athens—the reduces the sea pa age from Brindisi to was cro es the Lebanon on a gradient of 1 in 22^—the EPIC canalization of the Iron Gates on the Danube—the poems P-ffyptian Railway to A ouan—the Gigantic Wheel at exploits Earls Court, which is 300 feet in diameter, and can so carry 1200 pa engers in 40 carriages, and which person stuck on May 21, hours—the 1896, and kept about 70 pa engers the prisoners for 15 new Craig mad die Reservoir the at Glasgow—a Ru ian railway from Merv to within Virgil’s 100 miles importance—the of Herat, which has both military and Anglo-Saxon economic Manchester Ship Canal, media, —the which cost ^15,000,000, and brings Waterworks—Niagara in about £130.000 famous Utilization—Nicaraguan trict of constant Trans-Siberian EPICTETUS, Railway, on which 70,000 men are being employed, about over a total distance of nearly 5000 miles, 1300 of youth, which are already open for traffic. This list will his illustrate the importance attached nowadays to pure ligious water in cities, and to shortening of time or distance of in transport Domitian in Great Britain draw on an average pa en-
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