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Excerpt from Practical Steel Construction: Dealing With All Phases in the Construction of Our Modern Steel Buildings; With Illustrations, Drawings and Valuable Tables The introduction of steel in construction has become universal in this country during the last decade. Its extended use is evidently due, not only to its merits as a constructive material and the exceedingly low price at which it may be obtained, but also to the rapidity with which it may be assembled in the field. Without such a material the skeleton construction adopted for high office buildings and similar structures, which are being erected so generally in the principal American cities, would be impracticable; bridges would become more cumbersome and unsightly affairs, and the success ful construction of graceful and symmetrical roof trusses, and arched ribs of great span would be almost impossible. 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.