Excerpt from The Practical Designing of Structural Ironwork The descriptions accompanying the calculations are brief, but will be found ample enough to render the whole of the working clear and definite to any one who has had the ordinary preliminary training in the principles of mechanics and theory of stresses. The opening chapters are expressly made very simple, to remove any possible difficulty that might otherwise be experienced by a beginner in designing, and many subsidiary matters are touched upon throughout the book as indicative of the intimate knowledge of detail which should be shown by a competent draughtsman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.