Excerpt from The Ransome Book: How to Make and How to Use Concrete IN issuing this booklet the Ransome Concrete Machinery Company is making a departure from usual practice that it is hoped will be popular. The Ransome line of machinery and concreting equip ment has been subordinated to those fundamental practices which govern success in the use of concrete. The thought is this: However good the machine may be, the concrete cannot be all that it should be unless the human element can be controlled. The machine cannot do that. This is up to the man on the job. Success in the use of concrete, as in the use of any other building material, lies in following well established rules that have proved themselves the proper guide. Concrete is too big a subject to be covered within the limited space of this booklet; but there have been gathered here useful data that are applicable to almost any and every kind of concrete work. Every page, it is believed, contains more than one reminder of the things that should be done but which are frequently overlooked or neglected. Among many sources of information on the uses of concrete are the numerous booklets and pamphlets issued by the Portland Cement Association. All of these publications can be obtained for the asking. 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.