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A wooden flume was also built from the Sierra Nevadas into Carson City.
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Traffic on the rest of the canal continued to decline, and when a breach occurred at Cilfynydd in 1915, the company decided not to invest in its repair, but instead built a wooden flume around the breach, so that water from the Elen Deg feeder could still reach the rest of the canal.
A ditch carried the water from a millpond to a wooden flume, which brought the water to the top of the waterwheel.
The water traveled from the reservoirs through a wooden canal called a flume that was up to forty-five miles long.
A wooden flume, now long gone, was constructed to carry water west toward San Diego.
The water was transported to the city through a 10-mile wooden flume that emptied into an in-town reservoir.
* A wooden flume over the pump house yard used to carry the water from the pump house back to the canal
The water was pumped along a wooden flume for a distance of about 219 yards ( 200 m ) and then discharged into the Fairbottom Branch Canal at Fenny Fields Bridge.
In July 1940, the San Joaquin River was diverted through a wooden flume so that work on the foundations could begin.
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The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.
There was a wooden tower or derrick there, something like a ski jump ; ;
There was a mound of bleached human bones and skulls at the base of the big wooden derrick.
There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.
It was an old and dirty wooden structure, sadly in need of repair.
Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.
Together they also developed a new form of voltaic cell in which the wooden trough was replaced by one of copper, thereby producing stronger currents.
The fixed wooden scaffold was removed, and, so as to reach all the frieze, one of pipe, on wheels, built up from the floor.
There was a small sideboard with some empty beer bottles on it and perhaps fifteen wooden chairs.
The desk before him was in no better repair than the rest of the furniture crowded into the room, including wooden file cabinets with some of their pulls yanked off and a wardrobe stained with the roof seepage of countless seasons.
It was a big room, empty except for a few things of Pops's at the far end -- a wooden crate on which stood the candle, a spread out blanket, and an unrolled bindle.
A rare discovery of metal plates belonging to wooden doors was made at Balawat ( Imgur-Enlil ).
The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.
The wooden bridge, dating from the Middle Ages, across the Aar was destroyed by floods three times in thirty years, and was replaced with a steel suspension bridge in 1851.
By 1792 the colony was well established, though Sydney remained an unplanned huddle of wooden huts and tents.
Sulla captured it in 89 BC by setting on fire the wooden breastwork by which it was defended, and new fortifications were erected.
The shaft was fitted into the socket of the fore shaft and a bone ring was then placed over the joint to hold the two pieces together, as well as, protecting the wooden shaft from splitting.
The Throwing lance usually consisted of three parts: a wooden shaft, a bone ring or belt, and the compound head that was made with a barbed bonehead and a stone tip.
Sakas was able to ignite a wooden boat at some distance in only seconds.
This mammoth wooden ship was constructed using teak, without any iron or blueprints and which has transportation capacity of 400 tonnes.
The prefabricated wooden huts were still being erected, and initially the entire " shooting party " was crowded into the mansion, its stables and cottages.
Aboard the Orion, a wooden block was smashed off one of the ship's masts, killing two men before wounding Captain Saumarez in the thigh.
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Dürer also appears to have been collecting for his own cabinet of curiosities, and he sent back to Nuremberg various animal horns, a piece of coral, some large fish fins, and a wooden weapon from the East Indies.
A boomerang is usually thought of as a wooden device cut from a tree trunk, although historically boomerang-like devices have also been made from bones.
* In manga, Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King, Ryu possesses a wooden sword and uses it as his main weapon, and for that reason he is also known as Bokuto no Ryu ( Wooden Sword Ryu ).
They also introduced the wheel, and brought wooden carts and carriages to facilitate their transport.
The temporary tent camps had also transitioned from tents to wooden barracks.
For Pasiphaë, as Greek mythologers interpreted it, Daedalus also built a wooden cow so she could mate with the bull, for the Greeks imagined the Minoan bull of the sun to be an actual, earthly bull, Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he took an opportunity.
Can also be built with staggered wooden blocks.
Can also be built with staggered wooden blocks.
The most expensive metal lever systems also give the player the ability to " lock " down notes on the extension fingerboard, as with the wooden " finger " system.
There are also modern wooden bodies instruments usually with silver or gold keywork.
Hungarians also had their own writing system, the Old Hungarian script, but no significant texts remain from that time, as the usual medium of writing, wooden sticks, is perishable.
Though using both flat wooden panel and stretched canvas paintings, Catholics traditionally have also favored images in the form of three-dimensional statuary, whereas in the East statuary is much less widely employed.
Twenty years after his first CD, Kaira ( Hannibal, 1988 )-that was also the first CD ever recorded with solo kora pieces without any song -, Toumani Diabate alternates traditional pieces on a kora with leather rings and his own creations with a special tuning on a kora with wooden pegs.
The kerling also had a companion: the " mast fish ," a wooden timber above the kerling just below deck height that provided extra help in keeping the mast erect.
At the elite level, competitors run down a runway ( usually coated with the same rubberized surface as running tracks, crumb rubber also vulcanized rubber ) and jump as far as they can from a wooden board 20 cm or 8 inches wide that is built flush with the runway into a pit filled with finely ground gravel or sand.
Mesoamericans also made a type of sword with obsidian blades mounted in a wooden body.
There were protesters but also hundreds of supporters of the Shah, as well as a group of fake supporters armed with wooden staves, there to disturb the normal course of the visit.
Boxes of various shapes are often constructed from planks, logs, or other large wooden frames that allow children easy access to the sand and also provide a convenient place to sit.
) Although these things are true, the government also wanted more tax money from breweries, as using wooden barrels means that a significant amount of sake is lost to evaporation ( somewhere around 3 %), which could have otherwise been taxed.
It is also used to describe each of the wooden poles to which the parchment of a Sefer Torah is attached.
* A mysterious but efficient automatic transportation device ( initially used for grain ) referred to as the " wooden ox and flowing horse " ( 木牛流馬 ) also invented by Zhuge, which is sometimes identified with the wheelbarrow.
It was the last significant naval battle fought by squadrons of wooden ships and also the last one involving Denmark.
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