Research Catalog

Title

Structural iron and steel, 1850-1900 / edited by Robert Thorne.

Publication

Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate/Variorum, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

Thorne, Robert.

Description

xxxi, 378 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 10

Uniform Title

Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 10.

Subjects

• Iron and steel bridges
• Civil engineering > History > 19th century
• Iron, Structural
• Steel, Structural
• Building, Iron and steel

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Some structural problems encountered in the building of the Crystal Palace of 1851 / Tom F. Peters -- The Boat Store, Sheerness (1858-60) and its place in structural history / A.W. Skempton -- Bogardus revisited. Part I : The iron fronts and Part II: The iron towers / Turpin C. Bannister -- The development of fireproof construction in Great Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century / Sarah Wermiel -- The development and use of the tubular beam, 1830-1860 / Stanley Smith -- Surviving cast- and wrought-iron bridges in America / Eric Deloney -- The designing of the Eads Bridge / John A. Kouwenhoven -- Tay Rail Bridge centenary : some notes on its construction, 1882-87 / J.S. Shipway -- The Forth Railway Bridge centenary, 1890-1990 : some notes on its design / J.S. Shipway -- L'entreprise Eiffel / Bertrand Lemoine -- The Galerie des Machines of the 1889 Paris world's fair / John W. Stamper -- The two centuries of technical evolution underlying the skyscraper / Carl W. Condit -- Toward a better understanding of the evolution of the iron skeleton frame in Chicago / G.R. Larson and R.M. Geraniotis -- Steelwork in building : thirty years' progress / S. Bylander -- Steel frame architecture versus the London Building Regulations : Selfridges, the Ritz, and America technology / Jeanne C. Lawrence.

ISBN

0860787591

LCCN

00102912

OCLC

• 44184584
• ocm44184584
• SCSB-4189401

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries