A treatise on the origin, progress, prevention, and cure of dry rot in timber

Note 18 — Chapter VII · ON THE PRESERVATION OF WOODEN BRIDGES, JETTIES, PILES, HARBOUR WORKS, ETC., FROM THE RAVAGES OF THE TEREDO NAVALIS AND OTHER SEA-WORMS.

Reading edition

See ‘Memoirs of Sir M. I. Brunel;’ also, for particulars of the construction of the shield designed by him for forming the Tunnel, Weale’s ‘London Exhibited,’ and ‘A Memoir of the Thames Tunnel,’ in Weale’s Quarterly Papers on Engineering.

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