Word: caissons
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...millimetre, with the property-familiar in several forms of bacteria-of "fixing" nitrogen. These enable the whale to absorb almost twice the proportion of nitrogen in its blood that a human being can. They save him-when he surfaces swiftly after sounding deep- from the pain and dizziness called caisson disease or "the bends" experienced by human deep-sea divers, in whose veins bubbles of nitrogen form when they come up too fast...
...spearhead of Southampton's $65,000,000 port improvement project was a dry dock, built for $6,250,000, fit to bed down a 100,000-ton liner such as does not now exist. Through its gate, liners will float into a huge masonry bed. A sliding caisson will drop behind them. Four 54-in. centrifugal pumps will take out water until the ship sits on the concrete bottom, propped upright so that its hull may be scraped.* Flanking the dry dock are a mile and a half of new quays. Nearby a monument marks the spot whence...
...King's yacht steamed last week through the open gate, breaking a red, white and blue ribbon, but the caisson did not drop behind it. The King in his Admiral-of-the-Fleet uniform led Queen Mary and the Duke & Duchess of York down the gangway to a royal box on the quay. He made a speech calling the dry dock a good thing. Chairman Gerald...
...ever regarded either at the mill or among his friends as "a bitter, hard man." Like all Roeblings, he was exceedingly reticent. But he had a fine sense of humor and was the most amazingly patient and uncomplaining old chap I ever heard of. He did contract caisson fever while building the Brooklyn Bridge, and was an invalid for upwards of 50 years. In the last 18 years of his life he had the companionship of a most devoted wife (his second). I knew him rather well and never heard that he "ate upside down." He had a flair...
...foot was crushed in 1869 while making a preliminary survey for Brooklyn Bridge and 18 days later he lay dead of tetanus infection. The work was carried on by his young son Washington Augustus Roebling. an engineer proud of his Civil War-earned rank of Colonel. His specialty was caisson construction and he spent much time in high-pressure chambers under the East River. He contracted the "bends" a disease feared by all men who work under compressed air. Close to death, he rented a room on Brooklyn Heights and watched the construction through a telescope. His voice failed...