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
3587. … endurance, and manufacture of rails. (See Transactions, or Railroad Gazette, vol. vi., 18*74, pp. 269and 288, and vol. vii., 1875, p. 4*74.) The following are extracts from their reports: A rail has two principal functions to perform: as a beam or girder, to carry the weights betweenactual supports…
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