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Building : the fight against gravity

Title
Building : the fight against gravity / Mario Salvadori : drawings by Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus.
Author
Salvadori, Mario, 1907-1997.
Publication
New York : Atheneum, 1979.

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Additional Authors
  • Hooker, Saralinda.
  • Ragus, Christopher.
Description
152 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
An introduction to the basic principles of architecture and engineering including a discussion of structural materials and their properties and such problems as how skyscrapers are kept from swaying excessively and buildings prevented from sinking into the ground.
Subject
  • Structural analysis (Engineering) > Juvenile literature
  • Building materials > Juvenile literature
Note
  • "A Margaret K. McElderry book."
  • Includes index.
Call Number
JSE 81-731
ISBN
0689501447
OCLC
NYPG25833413-B
Author
Salvadori, Mario, 1907-1997.
Title
Building : the fight against gravity / Mario Salvadori : drawings by Saralinda Hooker and Christopher Ragus.
Imprint
New York : Atheneum, 1979.
Edition
1st ed.
Added Author
Hooker, Saralinda.
Ragus, Christopher.
LCCN
79014325r81
Research Call Number
JSE 81-731
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