SCIENTIFIC BOOKS PUBLISHED BY 



Shreve on Bridges and Roofs, 



8to, 87 wood-out illustrations. Cloth. $5.00. 



A TREATISE ON THE STEENGTH OF BEIDGES AND 

 EOOFS^-comprising the detennination of Algebraic formulas 

 for Strains in Horizontal, Inclined or Rafter, Triangular, Bow- 

 string, Lenticular and other Trusses, from fixed and moving 

 loads, with practical applications and examples, for tho use of 

 Students and Engineers. By Samuel H. Sukeve, A.M., Civil 

 Engineer. 



The rules for the determination of strains given in this ■work, in the shape 

 of formulas, are deduced from a few well-known mechanical laws, and are not 

 based upon assumed conditions; the processes are given and applications 

 made of the results, so that it is equally valuable as a text-book for the 

 Student and as a manual for the Practical Engineer. Among the examples 

 are the Greithausen Bridge, the KuUemberg Bridge, a, bridge of the Saltash 

 type, and many other compound trusses, whose strains are calculated by 

 methods which are not only free from the use of the higher mathematics, but 

 are as simple and accurate, and as readily applied, as those which are used in 

 proportioning a AVarren Girder or other simple truss. 



The Kansas City Bridge. 



4to. Cloth. $6.00 



WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE REGIMEN OP THE MIS- 

 SOURI RIVER, and a description of the Methods used for 

 Founding in that River. By 0. Chanute, Chief Engineer, and 

 Geoege MoBisoif, Assistant Engineer. Illustrated with five 

 lithographic views and twelve plates of plans. 



Illustrations. 



Views. — ^Vie-w of the Elansas City 

 Bridge, August 2, 1869. Lowering 

 Caisson No. 1 into position. Caisson 

 for Pier No. 4 brought into position. 

 View of Foundation Works, Pier No. 

 4. Pier No. 1. 



Plates. — ^I. Map showing location 

 of Bridge. II. Water Kecord— Cross 

 Section of River — Profile of Crossing 

 — Pontoon Protection, in. Water 

 Deadener— Caiawn N o. S— Founda 



tion Works, Pier No. 3. IV. Founda- 

 tion Works, Pier No. 4. V. Founda- 

 tion Works, Pier No. 4 VI. Caisson 

 No. 5— Sheet Piling at Pier No. 6— 

 Details of Dredges — Pile Shoe — Beton 

 Box. VII. Masonry — Draw Protec- 

 tion— Faise Works between Piers 3 

 and 4. VIII. Floating Derricks. 



IX. General Elevation — 176 feet span. 



X. 248 feet span. XL Plans of Draw. 

 XIL Strain Diagrams. 



