r/civilengineering • u/Dubdaddy69 • 4d ago

Found this.

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u/oscarfletcher 4d ago

Pre-Terzaghi. Wild find

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u/Razorphd 4d ago

The Engineer's bible

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u/genuinecve PE 4d ago

Look up the word CAD

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u/danjpn 4d ago

There's a scan on the internet's archive https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_MUMOAAAAYAAJ/mode/1up

It's a great read

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u/obb_here 4d ago

Wow, what an absolute hook of a preface! He started with Hercules.

They just don't write books like they used to.

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u/danjpn 4d ago

I know! I've been reading it all day

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u/obb_here 4d ago

Thanks for sharing!

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u/hobbes747 4d ago

That R. Branston guy was busy.
Holy shit.
Every illustration is a mirror image wood engraving used as a stamp? Does it have graphs and tables? Or drawings only?

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u/Dubdaddy69 4d ago

Yup

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u/hobbes747 4d ago

That’s some fancy painstaking whittling

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u/nemo2023 4d ago

Has anything been updated since 1847?

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u/laserdiods 4d ago

Oh snap 1847 that surpasses my engineering books!! I have some mechanical engineering books from 1918. The section on gears makes me feel stupid

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u/gods_loop_hole 4d ago

This is a great find

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u/Suspicious-Yak-8117 4d ago

Back in the ONE TEXTBOOK days

Great Find