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Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 57
ins but to severe vibrations, all varying from moment to moment. The queen-post truss was remarkably developed by Palladio, a famous Italian architect of the sixteenth century. Two of his designs, here given in outline, are from his a a ios ong worj< on architecture published in iS7o:… … Palladio trusses. BRIDGES FOR RAILROADS 23 Theodore Burr, in 1804, in a wooden bridge over the Hudson atWater ford, New York. This bridge had spans respectively of154, 160 and 180 feet, stretches impossible to single wooden beams.
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