Excerpt from Wrought Iron and Steel in Construction: Convenient Rules, Formulae, and Tables for the Strength of Wrought Iron Shapes Used as Beams, Struts, Shafts, Etc TO Engineers and Builders in Iron and Steel this volume is presented, with the hope that it may be of assistance to them in their daily labors, and afford information upon some points which have not heretofore been put in published form. It has been the aim of the author to eliminate as far as possible mat ters of theory from statements of facts, that, where conflict of opinion may arise, each one may draw his own conclusions. It was considered advisable to treat only of subjects relating to Iron and Steel, referring to any of the numerous engineers' pocket books for information upon outside matters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.