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Title: The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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sof two and three rooms each. The other building is constructed of brick and contains a total of forty-seven apartments of two rooms each, with sleeping porches on the roof forthe occupants of the top floor. Each sleeping porch has a private stair-way. The equipment is most modern and includes a two-part heatingsystem embodying hot water service, steam heat, and a garbage l)urner.The main rooms are finished in gum and the corridors in Port Orfordcedar. The building cost approximately $75,000. Suburban House Competition A number of Los Angeles draftsmen v.ill enter the White Pine .Archi-tectural competition for a suburban house and garage to cost $10,000. Thecompetition closes May 1. Prizes are ofTcred as follows: First, $750; sec-ond, $400: third, $250; fourth, $100. The program may be obtained on appli-cation to Russell ¥. Whitehead, 132 Madison avenue, Xew York City. ^Ir.Whitehead was formerly editor of the .Architectural Record and the r)rick-builder. 84 The Architect ami EuQiuecr
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PHOTOGRAPH OF PLATES TESTliP BY THF. IWirEKSlTV OF CALIFORXIA Theory of Steel Plates, Reinforced Concrete Floors,Suspension Bins and Domes Hy R. S. CHEW. C. F... M. Am. Soc. C. E. THE reader will, I hope. ai)preciate at c.nce the void tliat these articlesare intended to fill. Probably no item of eng^ineerint^ construction is in such an am-biguous condition as our present theory of plates. Before the introduction of reinforced concrete the plate was restrictedto short s))ans and the thickness in these cases was guessed at or. at best,made to suit the ))ractical experience of the designer. At any rate, thesubject was not considered of sufficient practical importance to attract theattention of the practicing engineer. 4 I The Architect amd Engimecr The use of reinforced concrete, however, has made this subject one ofprimary- interest to the engineer, for he is now called apon to explain theaction of a plate under various conditions of snpport and loading. Forinstance, he must determine t

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