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Title: Handbook for architects and builders
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Illinois Society of Architects
Subjects: Architecture Building Architects
Publisher: Chicago
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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and objectionable as it can be when exposed to this combinedaction. The expansion of the steel the buildings contain is at the rate of a tenthof an inch per foot for a change in temperature of one thousand degrees (red heat).The other materials, stone, brick, terra cotta, etc., each has its own rate of expan-sion differing from each other and from that of steel. They all differ also in theirconductivity of heat. If these materials and steel are raised in temperatureequally throughout their whole length, the increase in length will differ in eachmaterial, and taking the conditions as they occur in almost all burnings of build-ings, the steel will, on this account, be heated much more quickly, and throughout 143 \^\)fn3\)()-\(o\)\sa3\: §Iay U/orl^s MANUFACTURERS OF Fireproofing Hollow and Porous Brick and Tile, Waterproof Hollow Face Brick.
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