A HISTORY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING (Record no. 651)
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| fixed length control field | 230822s1952 xx 000 0 eng d |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | JPS |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | a-my--- |
| 080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Universal Decimal Classification number | 624.92(091) |
| 090 00 - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (RLIN) | |
| Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) | CE 624.92(091) STR |
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| control field | JPS |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | STRUB,H., |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 #2 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A HISTORY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING |
| 260 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacture | Leonard Hill Ltd. |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | 1952 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 258 pages, |
| Other physical details | Illustration |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Chapter 1: The ancient world. 1. Canals and roads. 2. Bridges and buildings. 3. Ship building and harbour construction. 4. Ancient engineering science-Archimedes. 5. Engineers, contractors and building sites of the ancient world. Chapter 2: The Middle Ages. 1. The vaulting methods of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. 2. Transport roads and bridges of the Middle Ages. 3. Theoretical mechanics and static's in the scholastic age. Chapter 3: The basic problems of static and the beginning of the theory of the strength of materials. 1. Leonardo da Vinci and the mathematics of the Renaissance-Simon Stevin. 2. Galileo Galilie. 3. French and English scientific of the seventeenth century. 4. The mathematicians of the rationalist age. Chapter 4: The building techniques of the renaissance and Baroque. 1. The engineers of the Italian renaissance: Buildings bridges and fortifications. 2. Theoretical aids: Mathematical and geometrical rules. 3. Mechanical aids: buildings machinery and plant. 4. A "Civil Engineer" of the sixteenth century: Domenico Fontana. Chapter 5: The advent of "Civil Engineering" 1. Knowledge of building materials: first test of their strength. 2. Static applied to practical construction: Statically analysis of St.Peter's Dome, Rome-Polemics between theoreticians and practicians. 3. "Genie" and civil engineers in France-Engineering literature of the eighteenth century. 4. Hydraulics and hydraulic engineering in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 5. Engineering specifications in the eighteenth century. Chapter 6: The origins of structural analysis in France. 1. Vaults and domes. 2. Coulomb. 3. Navier. 4. The development of theoretical mechanics. Chapter 7: The industrialization of European culture. 1. The industrial revolution in England: Coal, steam engine and railways. 2. A new building materials: Iron and steel. 3. Structural and engineering and |
| -- | "architecture" part company. Chapter 8: Civil engineering during the nineteenth century. 1. Hydraulic engineering dams tunnels compressed air foundations. 2. Origin of graphic static: application to steel truss bridges. 3. Cement and reinforced concrete. 4. The mechanization of building techniques. Chapter 9: The present. 1. Recent developments in the sphere of structural analysis. 2. The influences of engineering construction on modern architecture: The technical style. 3. Retrospect- the limitations of the analytical approach to structural engineering. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | In English |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Civil engineering |
| 650 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | HISTORY |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Monograf |
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| Link information for 9XX fields | 1952 |
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| General Collections | JPS HQ Library | JPS HQ Library | Main Library | 22/08/2023 | CE 624.92(091) STR | 1000005853 | 22/08/2023 | 1 | 22/08/2023 | Monograf |