Piers

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• When all was completed the great staging was removed, and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge-faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• It is to be almost inclosed by massive stone piers, one of which will extend into the sea over three thousand feet in a straight line. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• There are over 50,000 tons of steel in the superstructure, and about 140,000 cubic yards of masonry and concrete in the foundation piers. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• Permission could not be obtained to interfere with the navigation of the Straits in the slightest degree during the building, and so piers and arches could not be used. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• He had his foot crushed while laying the foundation of one of the stone piers, and died of lockjaw. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• The height of the bridge above the piers is 330 feet. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• He designed the piers of Leghorn and the custom house regulations of Civita Vecchia. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• To-day her piers are deserted, her warehouses are empty, her merchant fleets are vanished, her armies and her navies are but memories. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• The central portion of the viaduct is supported on four piers, 90 feet above high water mark, with a span in the centre of 250 feet, and on each side of 125 feet. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• There are eight rectangular tubes resting on those piers, to form two lines of railway, each tube being 28 feet high and 14 feet wide, exclusive of the cellular cavities at the top and bottom. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
• The total length of the bridge is 910 feet between the centres of the anchorage piers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• Three balanced cantilevers are employed, poised on four gigantic steel tube legs supported on four huge masonry piers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• It is 984 feet high, and 410 feet across its foundation, and has a supporting base of four independent lattice work piers. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• The suspension towers stand on two piers founded in the river on solid rock at depths of 78 and 45 feet below high water, and they rise 277 feet above the same level. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
• It consists of 24 piers, 242 feet apart, except the centre one, from which the span is 330 feet. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• The cantilevers rest on two gigantic steel towers, standing on massive stone piers 39 feet high. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
• Two other piers, at a distance, on each side, of 460 feet, were built without much difficulty in shallower water, and between these and the masonry on each side was a distance of 230 feet. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.

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