Civil Engineering Public Works And Architecture

Author : William Phipps Blake
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330170762
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Civil Engineering and Public Works written by William Phipps Blake and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Civil Engineering and Public Works Class 65 of the Exposition included "Civil Engineering, Public Works, and Architecture." It is not proposed to give in these pages a full and comprehensive report upon this class. The design has been especially to notice the exhibition, by the Board of Public Works of Chicago, of the plans and details of the Chicago lake-water tunnel, of which no adequate description appears to have been given in the reports upon the Exposition. In addition, a few of the notes upon some of the other important and striking exhibitions in the same class have been written out and amplified by the aid of publications received since the close of the Exposition. Some departments of the subject have already been noticed in more or less of detail in the other reports of this series. For example, the increasing use of Coignet's agglomerated béton in construction, and the methods of paving in Paris with asphalt and with bitumen, have been carefully described in the reports made by Messrs. Leonard and Arthur Beckwith. Some observations upon the railways of France will be found in the general report, and some of the building materials are noticed in the report by Commissioner Bowen. An adequate notice of the extremely rich and varied display of materials used in the construction of great public works would alone form a volume far exceeding the limits allowed for this memorandum. Such materials include not only all varieties of stone, from granite to the ornamental marbles, but mortars, cements, artificial stones, bricks, and tiles, cast and wrought iron in various forms, zinc and other metals, wood, &c. Very interesting and valuable reports have been made by the French and British commissions upon all these materials. One by Prof. Delesse will be found in Tome X of the Reports of the International Jury; one by Captain Ponsonby Cox, R. E., upon "Civil Engineering," in Vol. IV of the British Report; and upon "Limes and Hydraulic Cements," by Lieutenant Colonel Scott, R. E., in the same volume. Roads and bridges, and internal navigation, foundations, and various special engineering operations have been elaborately reported upon by Baron E. Baude, of the International Jury. Exhibition Of Models And Drawings By France. The most complete and comprehensive exhibition in this class was made by the minister of public works of France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.