Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 172
saw was the making of wet concrete,and they stayed for ten minutes watching a gangof a dozen men mixing cement, sand, and finebroken stone and water, into a gigantic mud-pie.Then the men filled iron wheel-barrows with thesoft, wet, plastic material, and wheeled it up along inclined plane to the… … FIG. I. A CORNER OF A REINFORCED CONCRETEHOUSE IN PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTION. NOTICETHE IRON RODS PROJECTING FROM THE CEMENTCOLUMN AT THE CORNER. was wholly unlike any wooden structure. To ex-plain it the boys led him to one corner of thebuilding, and Fig. i shows what they saw.
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