 If we reduce in the same manner the labour expended in constructing the London and Birmingham Railway to one common denomination, the result is twenty-five thousand million cubic feet of material (reduced to the same weight as that used in constructing...  The Penny Mechanic, and the Chemist - Page 1251837Full view - About this book
 | 1838 - 520 pages
...used in constructing the pyramid) lifted one foot high, or nine thousand two hundred and sixty seven million cubic feet more than was lifted one foot high...this immense undertaking has been performed by about twentythousand men, in less than five years. From the above calculation has been omitted, all the tunnelling,... | |
 | 1838 - 510 pages
...used in constructing the pyramid) lifted one foot high, or nine thousand two hundred and sixty seven million cubic feet more than was lifted one foot high...this immense undertaking has been performed by about twentythousand men, in less than five years. From the above calculation has been omitted, all the tunnelling,... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1838 - 510 pages
...used in constructing the pyramid) lifted one foot high, or nine thousand two hundred and sixty seven million cubic feet more than was lifted one foot high...this immense undertaking has been performed by about twentythousand men, in less than five years. From the above calculation has been omitted, all the tunnelling,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 pages
...twenty years. ' If we reduce in the same manner the labour expended in constructing the London and Birmingham Railway to one common denomination, the...less than five years. ' From the above calculation have been omitted all the tunnelling, culverts, drains, "ballasting, and fencing, and all the heavy... | |
 | 1839 - 272 pages
...used in constructing the Pyramid) lifted one foot high, or nine thousand two hundred and sixty seven million cubic feet more than was lifted one foot high...in less than five years. From the above calculation have been omitted all the tunnelling, culverts, drains, ballasting, and fencing, and all the heavy... | |
 | 1849 - 492 pages
...(reduced to the same weight аз that used in constructing the Pyramid) lifted one foot high, or 9,267 million cubic feet more than was lifted one foot high...this immense undertaking has been performed by about 20,000 men in less than five years. " From the above calculation have been omitted all the tunnelling,... | |
 | Frederick Smeeton Williams - 1852 - 430 pages
...used in constructing the Pyramid) lifted one foot high, or 9,267,000,000 cubic feet more than were lifted one foot high in the construction of the Pyramid...about twenty thousand men, in less than five years. " Prom the above calculation have been omitted all the tunneling, culverts, drains, ballasting and... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1857 - 388 pages
...twenty years. " If we reduce in the same manner the labour expended in constructing the London and Birmingham Railway to one common denomination, the...less than five years. " From the above calculation have been omitted all the tunnelling, culverts, drains, ballasting, and fencing, and all the heavy... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1857 - 384 pages
...twenty years. " If we reduce in the same manner the labour expended in constructing the London and Birmingham Railway to one common denomination, the...less than five years. " From the above calculation have been omitted all the tunnelling, culverts, drains, ballasting, and fencing, and all the heavy... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1857 - 392 pages
...used in constructing the Pyramid) lifted one foot high, or nine thousand two hundred and sixty- seven million cubic feet more than was lifted one foot high...less than five years. " From the above calculation have been omitted all the tunnelling, culverts, drains, ballasting, and fencing, and all the heavy... | |
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