Rivers and Canals Volume 2.cLeveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt
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Author: Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt
Number of Pages: 142 pages
Published Date: 13 Sep 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130603354
File size: 14 Mb
File Name: Rivers.and.Canals.Volume.2.pdf
Download Link: Rivers and Canals Volume 2
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...Remarks on systems of Traction. Classification of Ship-Canals: Lateral Ship-Canals; Ship-Canals to Ports; and Intcr-oceanic Ship-Canals. References to first class of Ship-Canals. Lateral Ship-Canals: Gloucester and Berkeley Shi p-Canal, description, improvements proposed; Tidal Loire Ship-Canal, description; Tancarville Canal, conversion into Ship-Canal provided for; Ghent-Temeuzen Ship-Canal, early works for providing deep-water access to Ghent, description of earlier canal, conversion into a ShipCanal, growth of traffic; St. Lonis Ship-Canal, to avoid Rhone bar, description, traffic; St. Petersburg ana Cronstadt Ship-Canal, in place of shallow outlet of the Neva, description, cost. The forms and sizes of vessels, or barges, navigating rivers and canals, and the methods of traction employed, are important elements in the cost of working, the capabilities, the speed, and the convenience of inland navigation. They necessarily depend largely upon the size of the waterway, the nature of the traffic, the distance to be traversed, and any 540 Considerations affecting Forms of Barges, chap. special conditions, such as a rapid current, or the necessity of traversing an exposed channel. Forms Of Barges. The size of the barges intended to navigate any special waterway is limited by the minimum available depth of the waterway, and the width and length of the smallest lock; and the barges must not approximate very closely to the available depth and width, in order to avoid an undue resistance to traction. Economical considerations would dictate that the barges should be given the maximum capacity consistent with the above limitations, which would be effected by giving them the same width and depth throughout. As, however, this rectangular form would..
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