Life of Robert Stevenson Civil Engineer
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All this arrangement was required, because at the time of which I write, before steamboats were invented, two costly deep-water piers placed ex adverso of each other, one on each side of a ferry, would not have met the requirements of the case ; for the manage- ment of a sailing pinnace, at the mercy of the currents and winds, demanded not a single pier for which to steer, but a choice of several points, on as wide a range of coast as possible, for which the "skipper" could shape his course and... make a landing. Mr. Stevenson's nautical experience peculiarly fitted him for giving valuable advice in this important branch of marine engineering. It is no doubt a branch of the profession which may be said to be obsolete, but I do not know that on that account it is undeserving of notice ; and the best mode I can think of for conveying to any one who may be interested in it an idea of the "ferry engineering" of former times, is to give an extract, with an illustrative sketch, of one of Mr. Stevenson's early Ferry Reports.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
All this arrangement was required, because at the time of which I write, before steamboats were invented, two costly deep-water piers placed ex adverso of each other, one on each side of a ferry, would not have met the requirements of the case ; for the manage- ment of a sailing pinnace, at the mercy of the currents and winds, demanded not a single pier for which to steer, but a choice of several points, on as wide a range of coast as possible, for which the "skipper" could shape his course and... make a landing. Mr. Stevenson's nautical experience peculiarly fitted him for giving valuable advice in this important branch of marine engineering. It is no doubt a branch of the profession which may be said to be obsolete, but I do not know that on that account it is undeserving of notice ; and the best mode I can think of for conveying to any one who may be interested in it an idea of the "ferry engineering" of former times, is to give an extract, with an illustrative sketch, of one of Mr. Stevenson's early Ferry Reports.
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