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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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s reached a i)rice from which it is likely to decline:but when one reflects to what a small extent the jirice of steel affectsmost civil engineering works, it is clear that even a great drop in steelprices will have only a minor effect on the average cost of jiublic works. Let civil engineers now, if ever, give evidence both of the faith that isin them as to our economic future and of the broad knowledge ofeconomic conditions that tliey are presumed to )ios>;e<hingtiin, H. (..The ))hotogra;)h was t;iken especially for Tlie Nations lUisine^s 1>\- .Mr. (.. T.Chapman. 86 THE ARCHITECT .WD EXGLXEER
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REIM-ORCED COMREl E BARGE Reinforced Concrete Ships—Why Not? THE priil)lem that confronts our coiintr)- of increasing the merchantmarine requires the consideration of every possible method or ma-terial of construction. Several prominent engineers have suggestedreinforced concrete. A San Francisco paper mentioned in a recent issue the interesting factthat a local firniof engineers, Messrs. Kahn & MacDonald, was designing a shipwith a length of 330 feet, a beam of 44 feet and a depth of 31 feet, with acapacity of 4500 tons—to be built of reinforced concrete. This is not some-thing new—a concrete schooner was eni))l(jyed for some years in the northAtlantic coasting trade, having been constructed in about 1898. The Lon-don Times mentions a small boat of reinforced concrete built by a French-man in 1849 and still in service after a test of 68 years. The concrete ship is only a further development of the concrete barge,and such craft have been in successful use for years. Concrete

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