Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 668
great variety of the forms of rails and their joints, their frequent failures, and the differencesof opinion regarding this subject, all show that the question of rails is a difficult one, and that anultimate settlement of it has not been reached. The American Society of Civil Engineers has…
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