Docenal Arithmetic

PART V. Military implications of the term “Engineer” prior to the 19th Century. Doubtless the cave dweller had his arts of fortification, and those savagts who erected defences of wicker screens were in very truth the prototypes of the engineer. Specialisation had already set in wherever groups of men were set apart to maintain and repair the wicker defences. E. Fiander Etchells

The subject of this paper is the strength of rectangular slabs, but it is limited to such slabs as have an appreciable thickness coinpared with the span, and more particularly it is limited to slabs of reinforced concrete only. A. Ingerslev

In calculating the strength of plated rolled or built up sections it is usual first to calculate the moment of inertia about the neutral axis and then divide by the distance of the neutral axis from the extreme fibre. W.A. Green