Identifier: architectenginee6220sanf (find matches)
Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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That Mr. Fitzpatricks scheme is not impracticable is shown by this picture of the process carriedout in building the portion of the New York subway that goes underneath the Harlem River. Inthis case the sections were built of steel instead of concrete; but they were sunk, as Mr. Fitzpatrickadvocates, in a carefully prepared trench.
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iff My subaqueous bridge crossing co.nsists merely in lowering a previously liuilt IuIk- into phicc,either right on the bottom of tlie waterway or raised aliove the bottom on piers, says Mr. Fitzpatrick. 96 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ends are fastened to the other sections. Another and another section islowered. When all are in place the water is pumped out, the connectionsperfected, tracks laid, lights, ventilation, and drainage installed. Your subaqueous bridge is complete and ready for operation—thecheapest and best water crossing ever devised, one not subject to windsand storms like a bridge, nor disturbed by currents or tides, nor painfullybored underground. If the traffic becomes too great for two tracks, anotherdouble-track tube is laid alongside the first, and another and another lateron, as needed. Thus the subaqueous bridge can develop Avithout in anyway disturbing the first tube or its traffic. The joints, in these tubes are so devised that when the two sectionsare butted

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