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Excerpt from An Essay on the Strength and Stress of Timber, Etc; Etc <p>It would be too much for me to presume that I. Havefully accomplished what this writer considers so great a desidera tum; but I may, perhaps, be allowed to say, that I have made some considerable advances towards it, and put the ptactical. Engineer in possession of certain facts which have not before been generally known, and several rules for com-e putation that he will in vain look, for in any other work: for it is not only our country that has to compiain of this paucity of information, there being no treatise, at least that I am acquainted with, in the French or any other language, from Which such practical knowledge is to be obtained. <p>The Freubh government has, it is true, at different times, ordered experiments to be carried on with a view to furnish the requisite data for a general theory: first, under the direction of Du Hamel and Bu'on and, latterly, under that of M. Girard, who afterwards published his Traité Analy tique de la Résistance des Solides but I have shown. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.