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Excerpt from The Mechanics of Building Construction During the summer of 1906 the author was requested by the Board of Education to give a course of lectures at South Kensington upon "The Mechanics of Building Construction" to a number of Science teachers selected by the Department from all parts of the Kingdom, with the object of perfecting their knowledge of the subject and at the same time illustrating the manner in which it should be taught. The course was so well appreciated by the teachers that a repetition was asked for in 1907, and was duly given to another selected group. Those lectures form the basis of the present work; but in preparing his notes for the press the author has made some alteration in the division of the sections and many additions to the text and drawings, and has revised the remainder where expedient. The details have been expanded, and explained more fully than they were in the first instance, so that what was originally prepared for teachers only is now available also for students, and forms a complete text-book of all the more important branches of the subject. The matter is divided up into thirty chapters so that, if used as lectures, each would occupy not more than one and a half hours in delivery, including the time taken up in sketching the diagrams on the blackboard. The want of a good general work upon the principles of Structural Engineering, which covers the whole ground that a student needs to traverse before he begins to specialise, has often been felt by young architects and engineers, although there are many books dealing with some of the elementary branches which leave little to be desired. This work is intended to supply the deficiency. 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.