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Haupt, Herman, A. M.
General Theory on Bridge Construction: Containing Demonstrations of the
Principles of the Art and Their Application To Practice; Furnishing the Means
of Calculating the Strains Upon the
Chords, Ties, Braces, Counter-Braces, and Other Parts of a Bridge or Frame of
any Description. With Practical Illustrations.
New York: D. Appleton &
Company, 1851. 9-5/16 Inches. 268,(14),(4 ads) pages. Illustrated. Blind
Stamped Cloth. Hardback. Fair condition. Lacks spine. Binding flecked, rubbed,
torn. Foxing. Front cover almost detached. Contemporary signature on title
page.
Includes in part: Resistance of Materials; Wooden
Bridges; Cast-Iron Bridges; Equilibrium of Arches; Lattice Bridges; Foot-bridge
across the river Clyde; Pennsylvania Railroad Viaduct; Cove-Run Viaduct; Iron
Bridge Across Hartford-Run, Baltimore; Little Juniata Bridge; Sherman’s Creek
Bridge, Penn. Central Railroad; Rider’s Patent Iron Bridge; Cumberland Valley
Railroad Bridge; Trenton Bridge, Iron Arched Bridge; Iron Bridge Over Racoon Creek;
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Bridge; Canal Bridge, Penn. RR.; Boiler Plate
Tubular Bridge; Arched Truss Bridge, Reading Railroad; Bridge Across the
Susquehanna; Trussed Girder Bridges; &c.
Herman Haupt, A. M. Civil Engineer, General
Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Formerly Professor of Mathematics
in Pennsylvania College.
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