Structural iron and steel, 1850-1900
By: edited by Robert Thorne.
Contributors: Thorne, Robert, fl. 1978-
Series: Studies in the history of civil engineering -- v. 10.
Publisher: Ashgate/Variorum
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Aldershot [Engand]; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Iron, Structural; Steel, Structural; Building, Iron and steel; Bridges, Iron and steel; Civil engineering -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Some structural problems encountered in the building of the Crystal Palace of 1851 / Tom F. Peters; title: The Boat Store, Sheerness (1858-60) and its place in structural history / A.W. Skempton; title: Bogardus revisited, part I: the iron fronts and part II: the iron towers / Turpin C. Bannister; title: The development of fireproof construction in Great Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century / Sarah Wermiel; title: The development and use of the tubular beam 1830-1860 / Stanley Smith; title: Surviving cast- and wrought-iron bridges in America / Eric Deloney; title: The designing of the Eads Bridge / John A. Kouwenhoven; title: Tay Rail Bridge centenary : some notes on its construction, 1882-87 / J.S. Shipway; title: The Forth Railway Bridge centenary, 1890-1990 : some notes on its design / J.S. Shipway; title: L'entreprise Eiffel / Bertrand Lemoine; title: The Galerie des Machines of the 1889 Paris world's fair / John W. Stamper; title: The two centuries of technical evolution underlying the skyscraper / Carl W. Condit; title: Toward a better understanding of the evolution of the iron skeleton frame in Chicago / G.R. Larson and R.M. Geraniotis; title: Steelwork in building : thirty years' progress / S. Bylander; title: Steel frame architecture versus the London Building regulations : Selfridges, the Ritz and America technology / Jeanne C. Lawrence.