Excerpt from American Steel Wire Co: Handbook and Catalogue of Concrete Reinforcement, October, 1907
Many paragraphs and chapters dealing with reinforced concrete are selected and reprinted by permission, from Concrete Plain and Reinforced, by Taylor Thompson; Reinforced Concrete by Buel Hill, and others.
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