- deep. The four main
types of
caisson are box
caisson, open
caisson,
pneumatic caisson and
monolithic caisson. A box
caisson is a
prefabricated box (with...
- water. In
April 1815 the
Regents Canal Company built a
double caisson lock (or "hydro-
pneumatic lock") at the site of the present-day
Hampstead Road Lock...
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installed using pneumatic caissons, a
pioneering application of
caisson technology in the
United States and, at the time, by far the
largest caissons ever built...
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filled with concrete.
These tubes were
driven into the
ground with a
pneumatic caisson process to
anchor the
foundations to the bedrock.
Because the slope...
-
unsecured shaft, over 46
years of excavation. Historically, work in
pneumatic caissons underwater exposed workers to the risk of
decompression sickness upon...
-
large pneumatic caissons that
became the
foundations for the two towers. In 1870, fire
broke out in one of the
caissons; from
within the
caisson, Roebling...
- Shoal, it was the
first lighthouse to be
built using a
pneumatic caisson. The
wooden caisson structure was
excavated to a
depth of 23 feet (7.0 m) below...
- Weldon's
caisson lock,
William Congreve in 1813
patented a "hydro-
pneumatic double balance lock" in
which two
adjacent locks containing pneumatic caissons could...
- to that
level as
water from the
river would rapidly seep in. So a
pneumatic caisson technique had to be used. As men were
working under pressures of up...
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cylinders sunk by
mechanical means, that was a
precursor of the
later pneumatic caisson system of skys****er
foundation construction. The
seminal 1893–94...
