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Earthwork and its cost; a handbook of earth excavation

Name: Earthwork and its cost; a handbook of earth excavation
Author: Halbert Powers Gillette

Halbert Powers Gillette · 1920 · Scanned text · Free in the US

481,233 words · about 33 h 42 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845

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Author: Halbert Powers Gillette
Language: English
Published: 1920
Length: 481,233 words · about 33 h 42 min
Sections: 9 reader sections
Source: Internet Archive (cu31924004135061)
Text: Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights: Public domain in the United States · PD-US by publication date

Contents (9)

Front matter about 7 min
Table Of Contents about 12 min
Chapter I about 1 h 8 min
Chapter III about 57 min
Chapter IV Clearing And Grubbing about 1 h 49 min
chapter vi 'spreading, trimming, and rolling earth about 20 min
Chapter VII . Hauling In Barrows, Carts, Wagons And Trucks about 1 h 8 min
II ~ about 14 h 9 min
Section 1 • Section 2 Length 296 ft. 615 ft about 13 h 52 min

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Cornell University Library TA 715.G47 1920

Earthwork and Its cost; a handbook of ear

3 1924 004 135 061

CHAPTEB PAGES

I Properties of Earth ., . . 1-18

Kinds of Earth, 1 ; Weight pf Soils, 4 ; Voids in Dry Earth, 5 ; Frost Penetration, 6 ; Angle of Repose, 7 ; Greatest Height of Vertical Bank, 7; Shrinkage, 8; Swelling of Newly Excavated Material, 10 ; Effect of Water on Clay Shrinkage, 13 ; Shrinkage of Rolled Earth Embankment, 14; Summary, 17; Bibliography, 18.

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