The design load capacity of each caisson at the anchor piers is 1,640 tons. |
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One afternoon in the summer of 1872, a man had to be carried out of the caisson with caisson disease. |
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He sailed to the raid in HMS Campbeltown and landed by jumping over the ship's bow onto the caisson to conduct demolition work ashore. |
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We saw the bronze of a Civil War general on horseback, soldiers hanging onto an artillery caisson clattering to his side. |
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The caisson is made of wood, but looks so shinny and smooth to the untrained eye it looks like metal. |
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The caisson ceiling was elaborately decorated with exquisitely enchased mosaic frescos. |
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The buttresses rise from caisson caps, each covering six concrete caissons. |
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As each caisson was an expensive endeavour, fewer but larger caissons were used. |
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Nick Ryan endured chest pains, broken limbs, bleeding sinuses, and caisson disease — the bends. |
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The burial ground was empty except for the occasional horse-drawn caisson being pulled through its quiet lanes. |
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Even the most modern methods of bringing men from high pressures to those of the atmosphere slowly do not entirely obviate the danger of caisson disease. |
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Many workers contracted what became known as caisson disease, which was caused by the changes in air pressure one endures when working in a caisson. |
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In 1880, the French physicist determines the cause of caisson disease. |
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The caparison horse is led behind the caisson tacked with an empty saddle with rider's boots reversed in the stirrups, a symbol of a warrior who will never ride again. |
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Around each site where a pier was to stand, a coffer dam, a sort of watertight caisson, was built. The dam was sealed with clay and the water pumped out. |
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The caisson was refloated on 19 October 1885, and then moved into position and sunk with suitable modifications. |
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To accomplish this, each caisson was shipped aslant into the other and consequently turned into the correct position at the turning point of the tide. |
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Raised with horses, the staff sergeant worked with the horses of the Army's honor guard near Washington, the Caisson Unit of the 3rd Infantry Division. |
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