assistant engineer's railway guide
Subtitle: containing instructions for setting out the lines and levels of railway works : in cuttings, embankments, and permanent way : bridges and viaducts, on the square, on the skew, and on curves : with numerous notes, tables, and practical office rules for designing or calculating the strength of railway works in stone, brick, wood, or iron : tables of earthwork sectional areas, and gradients : illustrated by upwards of 120 woodcuts
By: by W. Davis Haskoll ;to which have been added, ten sets of experiments on the strengths of materials, by George Rennie ; and three plates and specification, illustrative of the construction and details of the laminated arch forming the bridge over the Ouse, on the East Anglian Railway, J.S. Valentine.
Contributors: Rennie, George, 1791-1866; Valentine, J. S.; Shanly, Francis, 1820-1882 (bookplate)
Publisher: J. Williams
Published: 1846
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Railroads -- Design and construction; Railroads -- Early works to 1850
Notes: With the bookplate of Shanly.