Between the Covers

Softcover. Offprint. Octavo. 1,041-1,137pp. With several fold-out charts, two of which illustrate secondary stresses on one of the bridge's arches. wrappers with modest toning and soil, a bit of creasing at the spine base throughout, very good or better. First printed in volume LXXII of the American Society of Civil Engineers' *Transactions* in 1918, as Paper No. 1418. David B. Steinman was a noted American civil engineer and bridge designer, who worked on the Hell Gate Arch Bridge. Dedicated in March 1917, the Hell Gate Arch Bridge was the largest steel arch bridge in the world until 1931. *OCLC* seems to locate only three copies (Berkeley, U Illionis, a New York state library).

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