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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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y is a bureau of service andinformation operating for the Terra Cotta manufacturers ofthe United States. Its publications cover not only thetechnical and structural use of the material but show, as well, Copyrigrht 1920 by Diawiim by examples of its application to buildings of various types. •Jationiil Terra Cjtta SoeiGty H.gh Feiriss _ _ ^ Brochures of specific value, as indicated by their titles,will be sent to Architects on request: THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING CASS GILBERT, ARCHITECT The School The Theatre The Garage The Store The Bank These brochures consist of a selection of illustrations, with text and com-ment, shorving representative Terra Cotta buildings of the respective types. Terra Cotta—Standard Construction A Valuable Technical Reference Work for Architects and Engineers. TERRA COTTA Termancnt T>cautiful Vrofitahk When writing to Adver:is<ers please mention this magazine. 126 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER The Toughness of Corrugated Pipe By H. I\rcDOWELL WENTWORTH m-m.
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Armco corrugated pipe leading from concrete wallat edge of highway underneath railroad tracks. ONE of the principal reasons for therapid increase in the use of corru-gated pipe is its peculiar adaptability toservice conditions. In thousands of in-stances all over the country, it is givinglong continued service under conditionswhich speedily ruin other excellent formsof pipe and masonry. This it accoinplishesby virtue of the elasticity or toughnessconferred by the corrugations. It is aninteresting fact and one of great practicalimportance that the particular form whichmultiplies the strength of metal cylindersso surprisingly also enables them to en-dure bending through considerable limitswithout injury or noticeable deformationand to absorb all the changes resultingfrom expansion and contraction of their,material. A very large portion of the inhabitedarea of the United States is composed ofalluvial valleys and plains. The subsoilof such regions, while highly favorable toagriculture, of

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