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Structural iron and steel, 1850-1900
- Title
- Structural iron and steel, 1850-1900 / edited by Robert Thorne.
- Publication
- Aldershot [Engand] ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate/Variorum, ©2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Thorne, Robert (Architectural historian)
- Description
- xxxi, 378 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 10
- Uniform Title
- Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 10.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Iron, Structural
- Steel, Structural
- Building, Iron and steel
- Iron and steel bridges
- Civil engineering > History > 19th century
- Iron, Structural > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Steel, Structural > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Building, Iron and steel > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- structural iron
- structural steel
- Building, Iron and steel
- Civil engineering
- Iron and steel bridges
- Iron, Structural
- Steel, Structural
- Building, Iron and steel > Great Britain > History
- Iron, Structural > History
- Steel, Structural > History
- Civil engineering > History
- Building, Iron and steel > History
- Structural steel
- Steel construction
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Articles are reprinted from earlier publications.
- 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
- 9780860787594
- LCCN
- 00102912
- OCLC
- ocm44184584
- 44184584
- SCSB-1206697
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library