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Excerpt from Lectures on Building ConstructionThe art of building has never been fully discussed from the engineer's standpoint, and it is not proposed herein to attempt such discussion, but there are a number of points resulting from practical experience which will be touched upon with a view to supplementing the course in Building Construction at the Engineer School.Every military engineer should be master of construction in all its forms. P...

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Excerpt from Lectures on Building Construction Yet the design was such that the forces had always to be counterbalanced in a very indirect and costly way. Only the religious enthusiasm of the Middle Ages and a fine artistic sense, combined with the modern engineer's skill, without his sense of economy, could have produced such a type of building. The modern architect seems often to have inherited the artistic sense of his medieval predecessor...

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