London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 438
The piers, for the first, fourth, and seventh experiments in thelast two diagrams, were made with solid pieces of board, 1 in. 157 … thick, 4 in. broad, and of the heights of 6 in., 12 in., and 18 in.,respectively : bricks were employed for the other piers. With 418 Principles of Constructioti respect to the difference between the strength of a solid pierand one composed of several pieces, it is in favour of theformer. 158 w
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