Research Catalog

Title

Structural iron, 1750-1850 / edited by R.J.M. Sutherland.

Publication

Aldershot, Hampshire ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sutherland, R. J. M.

Description

xli, 382 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

This is a study of structural iron in civil engineering, from 1750 to 1850. The book presents a collection of essays which cover such areas as the use of cast iron in building, the first iron frames, iron in the roof of buildings, suspension bridges and developments in truss design.

Series Statement

Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 9

Uniform Title

Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 9.

Subject

• Iron, Structural
• Building, Iron and steel
• Iron and steel bridges
• Civil engineering > History
• structural iron
• Civil engineering

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

The use of cast iron in building / S.B. Hamilton -- The first iron frames / A.W. Skempton and H.R. Johnson -- The development of the cast iron frame in textile mills to 1850 / Ron Fitzgerald -- The age of cast iron, 1780-1850 : who sized the beams? / R.J.M. Sutherland -- Richard Turner and the Palm House at Kew Gardens / Edward J. Diestelkamp -- Matthew Clark and the origins of Russian structural engineering, 1810-40s : an introductory biography / Sergey G. Fedorov -- Shipbuilding and the long span roof / R.J.M. Sutherland -- James Finley and the modern suspension bridge / Emory L. Kemp -- Samuel Brown : his influence on the design of suspension bridges / Thomas Day -- Navier and the introduction of suspension bridges in France / Antoine Picon -- Ellet's contribution to the development of suspension bridges / Emory L. Kemp -- The first iron bridges / Barrie Trinder -- Early nineteenth century developments in truss design in Britain, France and the United States / D.A. Gasparini and Caterina Provost -- The introduction of structural wrought iron / R.J.M. Sutherland -- Structural model testing and the design of British railway bridges in the nineteenth century / Denis Smith -- The evolution of iron bridge trusses to 1850 / J.G. James -- Russian iron bridges to 1850 / J.G. James.

ISBN

• 0860787583
• 9780860787587

LCCN

97029066

OCLC

• ocm37373649
• 37373649
• SCSB-506990

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library