The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 345
Fi;. G. … the weight applied to an individual surface block is not confined to thefour base-blocks, its immediate supporters, but is transmitted through-out the whole structure, and no one part can yield to the superincum-bent pressure, without causing a general deflection from kerb to kerb;and as this is…
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