Journal of the Franklin Institute; devoted to science and the mechanic arts (1826)
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · Oxford, Eng. [etc.] Pergamon Press [etc.] · leaf 760
osing that they might occasionallyprove serviceable to other members of the profession, I submit them forpublication in your Journal, in case you entertain the same opinion. In wooden bridges in which the entire dependence for supportingthe weight of both the structure and the load, is placed upon… … will be found to give the side a b or a c, Fig. 1, of a single arch otany span whatever, which is square at its crown a c; and which, whencompleted by properly increasing its cross-sectional area from thecrown towards the springs, or skewbacks s s, (by a simple process whichwill soon be described,)…
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