This book traces the evolution of theory of structures and strength of materials - the development of the geometrical thinking of the Renaissance to become the

This book analyses problems in elasticity theory, highlighting elements of structural analysis in a simple and straightforward way.

An account which skilfully blends the personalities and great works of Britain's railway construction boom.

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This book is one of the finest I have ever read. To write a foreword for· it is an honor, difficult to accept. Everyone knows that architects and master masons