Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume I
Forfatter: Archibald Williams
År: 1945
Serie: Engineering Wonders of the World
Forlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Sted: London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York
Sider: 456
UDK: 600 eng - gl.
Volume I with 520 Illustrations, Maps and Diagrams
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ENGINEERING WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
stands far below zero. Icy winds, rising at
sunset, make the open air unendurable after
darkness sets in. We find, therefore, that
the workmen were duly compensated for
extra hardship. Thus, at 3,600 feet a mason
way completed behind them, which brought
up also all the materials for the stations and
engines, and the thousand and one articles
required in a mining town. Yet in spite
of the many physical difficulties that the
CARRYING A 2,000-FOOT LENGTH OF ROPE UP THE MOUNTAIN.
received 6s. 4d. a day, but at an elevation of
14,000 feet his pay increased to 15s. for a
working day of from five to eight hours only.
As the sides of the mountain are as barren
as the sandy wastes of the Sahara, the work-
men depended for supplies entirely on the rope-
motley gangs of labourers had to face, the
cableway was finished in fourteen months
from the start, which was made in December
1903.
We may now give some attention to the
gradients of the cableway. The line com-