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... Amount of Brick Pavement in United States - Cost of Brick Pavements in Different Cities - Amount of Material per Square Yard of Brick Pavement- Estimated Cost of a Brick Pavement . 258 CHAPTER X. WOOD PAVEMENTS . Early Wood Pavements ...
... Amount of Brick Pavement in United States - Cost of Brick Pavements in Different Cities - Amount of Material per Square Yard of Brick Pavement- Estimated Cost of a Brick Pavement . 258 CHAPTER X. WOOD PAVEMENTS . Early Wood Pavements ...
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... amount and quality of the stone it can produce . The different quarries vary much in the number and thickness of the quarry - beds , as well as the amount of the overlying earth . The beds range in thickness from an inch up to three ...
... amount and quality of the stone it can produce . The different quarries vary much in the number and thickness of the quarry - beds , as well as the amount of the overlying earth . The beds range in thickness from an inch up to three ...
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... amount of bitumen in a crude asphalt is not important as far as the character of the pavement is concerned , but commercially it is highly so , as upon the quantity depends the amount of paving mixture that can be obtained from a given ...
... amount of bitumen in a crude asphalt is not important as far as the character of the pavement is concerned , but commercially it is highly so , as upon the quantity depends the amount of paving mixture that can be obtained from a given ...
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... amount soluble is petrolene and the further amount obtained from chloroform treatment is asphaltene . Prof. Endemann works , it will be seen , upon very different lines from those previously described , and he contends that the above ...
... amount soluble is petrolene and the further amount obtained from chloroform treatment is asphaltene . Prof. Endemann works , it will be seen , upon very different lines from those previously described , and he contends that the above ...
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... amounts in quantity to about 9,000,000 tons . From levels run in 1893 the centre of the lake was found to be at an ... amount it should have been lowered by the output of the last thirty years , it has been figured by Mr. * This ...
... amounts in quantity to about 9,000,000 tons . From levels run in 1893 the centre of the lake was found to be at an ... amount it should have been lowered by the output of the last thirty years , it has been figured by Mr. * This ...
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