Skeleton Construction in Buildings: With Numerous Practical Illustrations of High Buildings (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William H. Birkmire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0332159876 ISBN 13: 9780332159874

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Skeleton Construction in Buildings: With Numerous Practical Illustrations of High Buildings

The author has endeavored in this volume to describe and illustrate the method of skeleton-constructed buildings; a new type of structure, which calls for principles entirely differ ent from the old system of cast-iron fronts and cast-dowelled columns with wooden girders.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0332159876
• ISBN 13: 9780332159874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276