Abstract
MODERN developments of means of transit, especially in the direction of the transhipment of heavy goods, have made it necessary that rapid and powerful lifting gear should be devised, and pari passu with the developments of heavy engines and wagons, heavy ordnance and large ocean liners, there has been an equally interesting and important advance in the construction of rapid and heavy cranes.
Cranes: their Construction, Mechanical Equipment, and Working.
Anton Böttcher. Translated and supplemented with English, American, and Continental Practice by A. Tolhausen. Pp. xvii + 510 (London: A. Constable and Co., Ltd., 1908.) Price 42s. net.
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L., F. Cranes: their Construction, Mechanical Equipment, and Working . Nature 79, 301–302 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079301a0
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