 | Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1858 - 642 pages
...direction of the yet sinking part of the cable, the successive portions payed out must, when they reached the bottom, arrange themselves in wavy folds, since the actual length is greater then the entire horizontal distance." It seemed desirable to ascertain how far such an idea as that... | |
 | 1857 - 648 pages
...direction of the yet sinking part of the cable, the successive portions payed out must, when they reached the bottom, arrange themselves in wavy folds ; since...length is greater than the entire horizontal distance. The fact, therefore, which, when noticed, led to the increasing of the strain on the Atlantic cable... | |
 | William Newton - 1858 - 430 pages
...the Meeting of the British Association at Dublin, in the year 1857, that "it seemed to be imiversally admitted that it was mathematically impossible, unless...provided to meet the waste, in varying depths of water. The questions discussed in the paper, and of which the mathematical investigations were given in an... | |
 | William Laxton - 1858 - 522 pages
...length much greater than that of the actual distance, as from the inclined direction of the yet-sinking part of the cable, the successive portions payed out...correct, and if correct, what amount of "slack," or surplus cable, should be provided to meet the waste, in varying depths of water. The questions discussed... | |
 | 1858 - 618 pages
...direction of the yet sinking part of the caWe, the successive portions payed out must, when tuny reached the bottom, arrange themselves in wavy folds ; since...length is greater than the entire horizontal distance. The fact, therefore, which, when noticed, led to the increasing of the strain on the Atlantic cable... | |
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...direction of the yet sinking part of the cable, the successive portions payed out must, when they reached the bottom, arrange themselves in wavy folds ; since...length is greater than the entire horizontal distance. The fact, therefore, which, when noticed, led to the increasing of the strain on the Atlantic cable... | |
 | 1858 - 646 pages
...direction of the yet sinking part of the cable, the successive portions payed ont must, when they reached the bottom, arrange themselves in wavy folds, since the actual length is greater then the entire horizontal distance." It seemed desirable to ascertain how far such an idea as that... | |
 | 1858 - 608 pages
...cabie, the successive portions payed out innate when they reached the bottom, arrange themselves iu wavy folds ; since the actual length is greater than the entire horizontal distance. The fact, therefore, •which, when noticed, led to the increasing of the strain on the Atlantic cable... | |
 | 1859 - 328 pages
...which the cable was payed out could be almost infinitely increased, to lay out a cable, in deep water, say two miles or more, in such a way as not to require...provided to meet the waste in varying depths of water. The questions discussed in the paper, and of which the mathematical investigations were given in the... | |
 | 1859 - 448 pages
...direction of the yet sinking part of the cable, the successive portions payed out must, when they reached the bottom, arrange themselves in wavy folds ; since...length is greater than the entire horizontal distance. The fact, therefore, which, when noticed, led to the increasing of the strain on the Atlantic cable... | |
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... almost infinitely increased, to lay out a cable in deep waters, say two miles, or more, in such a way as not to require a length much greater than that of the actual distance, as from the inclined direction of the yet sinking part of the cable, the... 
