The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 34National Geographic Society, 1918 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 29
... ancient and modern times look like a pigmy project . If it were diverted into Fifth avenue , it would be a stream waist deep , flowing at the rate of four miles an hour . A day's supply would fill a cistern a hundred feet in diameter ...
... ancient and modern times look like a pigmy project . If it were diverted into Fifth avenue , it would be a stream waist deep , flowing at the rate of four miles an hour . A day's supply would fill a cistern a hundred feet in diameter ...
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... ancient Rome could be built ; steel pipe - lines could be laid on the floor of the valleys ; inverted siphons or pressure tun- nels could be dug far below the surface through solid rock . 26 37 Photograph from Norman Thomas and W. W. ...
... ancient Rome could be built ; steel pipe - lines could be laid on the floor of the valleys ; inverted siphons or pressure tun- nels could be dug far below the surface through solid rock . 26 37 Photograph from Norman Thomas and W. W. ...
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... ANCIENT AND MODERN Engineering has progressed in great strides since the days when the Romans were building aqueducts . When the Aqua Claudia was under construction a tunnel under a mountain three miles long was necessary , and the ...
... ANCIENT AND MODERN Engineering has progressed in great strides since the days when the Romans were building aqueducts . When the Aqua Claudia was under construction a tunnel under a mountain three miles long was necessary , and the ...
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... ancient sys- tems of the Babylonian days . The power of the city of Antioch reached north and south and east . It was , perhaps , the most beautiful city of Hellenic times and certainly the most luxurious . After the Scipios broke its ...
... ancient sys- tems of the Babylonian days . The power of the city of Antioch reached north and south and east . It was , perhaps , the most beautiful city of Hellenic times and certainly the most luxurious . After the Scipios broke its ...
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... ancient Kingdom of Armenia . The population is not wholly Armenian - in fact , even be- fore the war the majority of the people were Turks and Kurds - but here the bulk of the Armenian race was found . It is a rugged land , a succession ...
... ancient Kingdom of Armenia . The population is not wholly Armenian - in fact , even be- fore the war the majority of the people were Turks and Kurds - but here the bulk of the Armenian race was found . It is a rugged land , a succession ...
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