Author: Hughes, James O'Hanlon
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Hughes, James O'Hanlon
The Structural Engineer, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1925
British Honduras Timbers. SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS OF THE EXAMINATION AT THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF SANTA MARIA WOOD (CALOPHYLLUM CALABA). West Indian boxwood is not the same species as true boxwood. The Jamaica boxwood is as hard as inferior qualities of true boxwood, and is used for similar purposes. H.D. Searles-Wood
IN 1883 the first edition of Kidder’s Architects’ and Builders’ Handbook appeared. It was then called a pocket-book, and could be carried in a coat pocket of ordinary size. The seventeenth edition, 1921, is more than three times as thick, although it is printed on thinner paper in smaller type. In the 1906 edition the following statement, appeared in the Preface: “At the time the first edition was written, the term ‘Architectural Engineering’ had not been used in the present application, and the term ‘Structural Engineering,’ when used, referred almost exclusively to bridge work." Ernest McCullough
ALL bridge structures belong to one or other of four primary types, the suspension bridge, arch, supported girder and cantilever. Although these primary types have become differentiated into a large number of variations conforming to special requirements dictated by topography of site, exigencies of traffic, properties of materials and possible methods of erection, yet such variants are the outcome of a gradual evolution dating back to pre-historic times. Professor J. Husband