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Excerpt from An Essay on the Strength and Stress of Timber, Etc; Etc
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.
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.
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