Identifier: architectenginee2210sanf (find matches)
Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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River, California, on I)Construction, on the Lett It took just one week to pul the false work in place and after that thehardest work was to get the material on the ground and in position toerect. The erecting of the spans was done with two traveling derricks, work-ing from the center of the bridge each way. You will notice in one of thepictures the top cord being pul in position with the use of the traveler. After the -pan was swung, the cords and end posts were covered withNo. 24 galvanized iron, leaving a 2-inch air space all around the timber toprevent am moisture gathering in the joints. Both the wood and the iron received two coats of Blac Lac damp-prooipaint. The structure was delivered b) the Thomson Bridge < ompany to theHume-Bennetl Lumber Companj at 9.30 a. m. on June 26, L910, two and ahalf hours ahead of the agreed time. The Architect and Engineer
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Hotel for Klamath Falls, OregonBenj. G. McDougall, Architect Improvements of Clay Products By AXTOX BERG. Toronto. EVERY low-grade brick, poorly made and poorly burnt, is hurting tbeclay interests. The plea that at the prevailing low price it is impos-sible to manufacture good brick, will not hold, and it is simply theold case of the survival of the fittest. This will mean either the improve-ment and better operation of the clamp kiln, or its replacement by bettertypes. If the undisputed excellence of brick as a building material is to beused as the principal argument for its advancement, we must not vitiateit by offering inferior products when better grades can be made at the samecost. Here again the question of educating the public comes into prom-inence, for if we show what good brick really mean, they are bound to findappreciation. If the manufacturer aims, for instance, to sell no brick whichshow a water absorption of more than 15 per cent by weight, and let peopleknow about it,

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