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Title: The Surveyor and municipal engineer
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: Municipal engineering Engineering Great Britain
Publisher: London, Temple Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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doubt, as Mr. Parsons had said, there were numerouscases of bridges giving way from the heavy hori-zontal thru I thai oi n th il walls of the arches. Tn the case of the bridge he had mentioned.he did not want to put tie rods in, or anything of;i rl He thought he should secure a good re-sult, in the way he I would he very in-teresting if Mr. Parson.- would say how he dealt withthis fracture. He had been very much interestedin visiting these bridges, although they had visitedthem under unpropi rcumstances. There wasone matter which struck him in connection withtome of these bridges. They were, divided into twospans, when some of them would have dealt withthem in one span. He would have done it with ferro-concrete. Of course, they were not all in favour offerro-concrete, hut he thought, ferro-concrete hadcome to stay. He had obtained some very good re-sults with ferro-concrete bridf 81 psl Hehad found it a most excellent material. He had hadbridges with a trnilai arch to this. and he had
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Ih\lf-ele\ :ii ion Half-section. Sl l; VI PORD-RO VD i>rtl DUE.(Plate IV.. Pig split courses under springers, padstmie .\-c. Brick-work is levelled every few courses with the instrumentto ensure the different pari i ture rising equally. The course lines for archi - are carefully marked onthe laggings, points being obtained through which todraw the lines by means of a flexible lath marked off to gauge and laid at right unci- to tl oui ses. This method is the most practi oblique arch as it is impossible to use a tring lim I pur) owing to t he cui \ ature o I he i h urn. In conclusion, the author would thank Mr. IF. E. Stilgoe, the cit; Eoi hi perm to write this paper and to u ■ ■; dra v ing DISCUSSION OF VLB PARSONS PAPEB The Chairman (Mr. A. T. Davis) proposed a voteof thanks to Mr. Parsons for preparing such anadmirable paper. Ho would especiall> commend it icause the author had given prices. They all knewhew valuable that practice was. If tin \ were puup a simple balustrade

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