Manual for railroad engineers and engineering students : containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads as built in the United States (1883)
Vose, George L. (George Leonard), 1831-1910 · Boston : Lee and Shepard · leaf 230
Fig. 100. larger structure, consisting of a bent girder, upon the back ofwhich the roadway may be supported, either by simple verticals, … Fisr. 101. as in the sketch, or by verticals stiffened by radial members run-ning in an inclined direction from the back of the arch. Fig. 102shows the general plan of the great bridge now being built acrossthe Mississippi at St. Louis. The chords of the curved ribs areto be made of cast steel…
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