Journal - Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania (1826)
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · [Philadelphia : Franklin Institute] · leaf 340
rail-ways and the magnitude of its streams, offers the greatestopportunity of any country for the development of the scienceand knowledge of bridge-building. Unfortunately, we have nowentered upon an era of standard specifications and each engi-neering society of any size is bent upon compiling its… … Bismarck Bridge, \orth Dakota. society are good enough the engineer should be content withthem. This automatically arrests any efifort on the part of thecontractor to produce better material than what is known by himas commercial product and thus progress in the manufactureof materials of higher…
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