Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Strength and Stiffness of Timber, Intended as a Guide for Engineers, Architects, Carpenters, Etc. Etc. Etc. In Estimating the Strength, Stiffness, and Magnitude of Beams to Be Employed in Buildings and Other Works: To Which Is Added, an Abstract of Problems and Rules, With Tables for Estimating by Inspection the Strength, Magnitude, and Flexure, of Cast Iron and Timber Beams; Also, Tables of the Properties of Timber, Metal, Brick, Clay, Earth, and Stone When Writers bring their labours so rapidly before the Public, as scarcely to allow time for turning over the pages of one production before the publication of another is announced, it is usual for them to make some apology for the intrusion, to describe the plan of their works, and to explain the motives which prompted their exertions. The Author of the present performance, however, considers it unnecessary to make any apology, -ahe pre sumes that the plan and nature of the Work are sufficiently described in the title-page, and his motive for laying it before the Public is briefly as follows.
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