Excerpt from High Masonry Dams

The present volume replaces the original No.22 of Van Nostrand's Science Series, bearing the same title, by Mr. John B. McMaster.

Mr. McMaster's volume treated mainly of the mathematical calculation of high masonry dams as it was understood at the time at which he wrote. Since then the masterly treatise of Mr. Edward Wegmann, upon the same subject, has so completely superseded all other treatment of the mathematical features involved that it would be useless to revive old methods.

Besides, the present author has long been convinced of the fact that, in view of the many practical limitations which surround the design of a high masonry dam, it is useless to attempt to adhere to a general formula for that great desideratum of all economical engineering design, namely, a Section op Equal Resistance.

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