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Excerpt from Specifications and Contracts: A Series of Lectures DeliveredSoon after Dr. Waddell's lecture on Engineering Contracts appeared in The Polytechnic a large portion of it was copied by Engineering News, and at the same time one of the editorial stafi of the latter paper wrote him offering to bring out the lecture in pamphlet or book form. Dr. Waddell replied that he had already made arrangements for publishing the lecture in pamphlet...
Excerpt from The Designing of Ordinary Iron Highway BridgesTms work is principally a compilation of the results of investigations made by the author during the last three years, and presented in a number of papers to the various American engineering societies. Sev eral portions of the book. Including many of the tables, are new, as this is the first systematic treatment, by the author, of bridges for cities and manufacturing districts, the pre...
Excerpt from A System of Iron Railroad Bridges for JapanThere are probably 300 miles of iron bridges in the country now, and perhaps in the neighborhood of 700 miles of wooden bridges. I am speaking now of railway bridges. The construction of road bridges is quite a separate and distinct industry. It is the price of iron that regulates the cost of a bridge, the cost of labor has very little to do with it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publ...
Excerpt from De Pontibus: A Pocket-Book for Bridge EngineersFor a railway company, the most satisfactory method of building bridges is either to have a permanent, competent bridge engineer in its employ, or to retain some specialist of established reputation to prepare specifications and complete detailed plans (not working drawings, however) for all its bridges, and to provide competent inspectors to see that during manufacture, shipment, and...
Excerpt from Specifications for Steel Bridges: Taken From "De Pontibus"A few changes in the specifications have been. Made in order to bring them up to date, the principal modifications being the following.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to...
Excerpt from Economics of Bridgework: A Sequel to Bridge Engineering
Comparative unimportance of market price variations - Structural metal price variations - Cement price variations - Monograph on Economic Span lengths for Simple-truss Bridges on Various Types Of Foundation. - Sus pension-bridge price-variations. - Location affecting economic layout.
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Excerpt from Addresses to Engineering Students
Just here it is pertinent to mention that the compilation has not by any means been undertaken as a money-making venture - far from it - because the Editors have not only done gratis all the work involved in its preparation, but also have themselves paid the cost of typesetting and providing the plates, in order that the book may be sold to engineering students at the actual cost of paper, press ...
Excerpt from De Pontibus: A Pocket-Book for Bridge EngineersFor a railway company, the most satisfactory method of building bridges is either to have a permanent, competent bridge engineer in its employ, or to retain some specialist of established reputation to prepare specifications and complete detailed plans (not working drawings, however) for all its bridges, and to provide competent inspectors to see that during manufacture, shipment, and...
Excerpt from A System of Iron Railroad Bridges for Japan
There are probably 300 miles of iron bridges in the country now, and perhaps in the neighborhood of 700 miles of wooden bridges. I am speaking now of railway bridges. The construction of road bridges is quite a separate and distinct industry. It is the price of iron that regulates the cost of a bridge, the cost of labor has very little to do with it.
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Excerpt from Specifications for Steel Bridges: Taken From "De Pontibus"
It appears that there is considerable demand by draftsmen and computers for the specifications of "De Pontibus, " but that the book is too expensive to use for specifications only, consequently the author and publishers of that work have concluded to print the said specifications, together with the tables and diagrams, separately from the other chapters - hence this littl...
Excerpt from The Designing of Ordinary Iron Highway Bridges
This work is principally a compilation of the results of investigations made by the author during the last three years, and presented in a number of papers to the various American engineering societies. Several portions of the book, including many of the tables, are new, as this is the first systematic treatment, by the author, of bridges for cities and manufacturing districts, the p...
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