A Treatise on the Origin, Progress, Prevention, and Cure of Dry Rot in Timber: With Remarks on the Means of Preserving Wood from Destruction by Sea Worms, Beetles, Ants, EtcE. & F. N. Spon, 1875 - 311 pages |
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... mechanical structure . It is only within the last few years past that the artificial desiccation of wood , before its impregnation with an anti- septic preparation in closed vessels , has been frequently adopted in practice . We cannot ...
... mechanical structure . It is only within the last few years past that the artificial desiccation of wood , before its impregnation with an anti- septic preparation in closed vessels , has been frequently adopted in practice . We cannot ...
Page 127
... mechanical but chemical ; and Captain Alderson , C.E. , having experi- mented upon some specimens of ash and Christiana deal , found that the rigidity of the timber was enhanced , but its strength was in some measure impaired ; its ...
... mechanical but chemical ; and Captain Alderson , C.E. , having experi- mented upon some specimens of ash and Christiana deal , found that the rigidity of the timber was enhanced , but its strength was in some measure impaired ; its ...
Page 165
... mechanical action . The timber is said to become incombustible , hard , and very lasting . M. Fontenay , C.E. , in 1832 , proposed to act upon the wood with what he designated metallic soap , which could be obtained from the residue in ...
... mechanical action . The timber is said to become incombustible , hard , and very lasting . M. Fontenay , C.E. , in 1832 , proposed to act upon the wood with what he designated metallic soap , which could be obtained from the residue in ...
Page 215
... mechanical skill of the teredo , its own body supplying it with an im- plement of such admirable consistency and adaptation as to enable it to excavate a habitation for itself , so accurately formed that to a casual observer it would ...
... mechanical skill of the teredo , its own body supplying it with an im- plement of such admirable consistency and adaptation as to enable it to excavate a habitation for itself , so accurately formed that to a casual observer it would ...
Page 216
... mechanical one . Although the teredo appears to penetrate all kinds of timber , that which it seems to destroy with the greatest ease is fir , in which it works much more speedily and * See ' Memoirs of Sir M. I. Brunel ; ' also , for ...
... mechanical one . Although the teredo appears to penetrate all kinds of timber , that which it seems to destroy with the greatest ease is fir , in which it works much more speedily and * See ' Memoirs of Sir M. I. Brunel ; ' also , for ...
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