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Definition of Bascules
1. bascule [n] - See also: bascule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bascules
Literary usage of Bascules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1916)
"Although these early bascules were counterweighted to some extent, ... When closed
the bascules formed an arch. For operating them a rack wheel and hand ..."
2. The Principles of Structural Design by George Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (1898)
"bascules.—Swing Drawbridges.—Floating Bridges. IN this chapter it is intended to
describe briefly the pri; design of cantilever bridges, illustrated by an ..."
3. Economics of Bridgework: A Sequel to Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1921)
"Percentage weight-curves for vertical lifts and bascules. ... Comparative costs
of swing-span bridges with vertical lifts and bascules. ..."
4. Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers by Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) (1895)
"engines by which the bascules are raised, as well as the larg recess, ...
The hydraulic power foi working the bascules and the lifts in the towers, ..."
5. Civil engineering as applied in construction by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1910)
"The bascules are raised and lowered by pinions moved by hydraulic power, working
in segmental racks fastened to the tail-ends; and the interruption to the ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"I have been able to carry experiments further at the Tower Bridge by observing
the pressure on the surface of the bascules of the brids* as evidenced by the ..."
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