Theory of Transverse Strains and its Application in the Construction of Buildings; including a full discussion of the theory and construction of floor beams, girders, headers, carriage beams, bridging, rolled-iron beams, tubular iron girders, cast-iron girders, framed girders, and roof trusses; with tables, calculated and prepared expressly for this work, of the dimensions of floor beams, headers and rolled-iron beams; and tables showing results of original experiments on the tensile, transverse and compressive strengths of American woods
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1877. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Small quarto, pp. 630, indexed, illustrated with b/w line drawings. Ex-library markings. This book was intended for architects and students of architecture. The author felt there were many books written on the mathematics of construction, but none..... More