Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 300
Modern builders, whether wittingly ornot, have taken a leaf from the book of nature in rearing theirtallest structures with hollow cylinder? of steel. What is thig ENSURING STRENGTH 251 but borrowing the form of the reed, the bamboo, a thousandvarieties of stalk, one of the strongest shapes in… … Section of pipe ormoor grass.
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