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Definition of Turntables
1. turntable [n] - See also: turntable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turntables
Literary usage of Turntables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civil Engineer's Pocket-book: Of Mensuration, Trigonometry, Surveying by John Cresson Trautwine (1874)
"turntables. turntables, »ble fs a platform, usually from 40 to 60 ft long, and
about 8 ï./ii,* a 6 Fig 1.) upou which ii locomotive and Us tender may be rua ..."
2. Railway Appliances: A Description of Details of Railway Construction by John Wolfe Wolfe- Barry (1881)
"The general use of turntables for moving carriages is being abandoned at the
present time in England, for many reasons. The insertion of a turntable in a ..."
3. Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications Relating to Railways by Great Britain Patent Office, Patent Office, Great Britain (1868)
"Twenty-secondly, supporting the rollers for the platforms of " turntables in a
double beam or in boxes forming part of the " curb. ..."
4. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1854)
"Ix the construction of turntables, three leading principles have been ... Most of
the turntables first laid down on railways were ie to rest on fixed ..."
5. Manual by American Railway Engineering Association (1921)
"•SPECIFICATIONS FOR BRONZE BEARING METALS FOR turntables AND MOVABLE RAILWAY
BRIDGES. 1. Phosphor bronze shall be a homogeneous alloy of crystalline ..."
6. The Design and Construction of Metallic Bridges by William Hubert Burr, Myron Samuel Falk (1912)
"turntables. The drums of rim-bearing turntables should be of sufficient depth to
prevent upward deflection from materially disturbing a uniform distribution ..."
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