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Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
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due course,—we are to look rather for the possi-bility of a new system of construction, and chiefly as applied to cov-ering in spaces, and to spanning openings in walls. For these purposes architecture has as yet advanced no new devicebeyond those known from immemorial ages,—the lintel and the arch.Even in such work as has involved the use of that really new material,iron, architecture has stuck to the old forms. vSo, too, for the mostpart, has engineering ; yet, in addition, there have been used in engi-neering work two new principles, both exceedingly well adapted toiron as a material, and one of them, I think, architecturally available. One of these is the suspension principle, the other the cantilever,—both tolerably familiar to everybody. Of the suspension principle I shall not now speak, although it isnot at all impossible that it might be used for covering vast areas. I caneasily imagine an international exhibition hall of unheard-of magni- THE CAXTILEVER IN ARCHITECTURE.
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CHAPEI.LE l»E.-5 KKKREs Al RHEIMS.A Typical Gothic \ault. tude, perhaps a thousand feet in span, of which the roof might be sus-pended, as is a suspension-bridge. Still, except for very unusual occa-sions, the suspension principle is hardly practicable ; nor in any casedoes it seem to offer any corresponding facility in bridging openings inwalls that -we have postulated as one of the requirements of a construc-tion that can aspire to be the basis of a style. The cantilever principle, on the other hand, does, I think, fulfilboth the requirements. It is capable of satisfactorily covering areas,and also of bridging openings, while, as distinct essentially from both 224 THE CANTILEVER E\ ARCHITECTURE.

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