Bridge Disasters in America - The Cause and the Remedy

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bridge Disasters in America, by George L. Vose This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Bridge Disasters in America The Cause and the Remedy Author: George L. Vose Release Date: October 9, 2009 [EBook #30223] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BRIDGE DISASTERS IN AMERICA *** Produced by KarenD and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Pg 1] BRIDGE DISASTERS IN AMERICA The Cause and the Remedy BY GEORGE L. VOSE AUTHOR OF "MANUAL FOR RAILROAD ENGINEERS AND ENGINEERING STUDENTS," "LIFE AND WORKS OF GEORGE W. WHISTLER, CIVIL ENGINEER," ETC. "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY" BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 10 MILK STREET Next Old South Meeting House 1887 [Pg 2] NOTE. The substance of the following pages appeared originally in "The Railroad Gazette." It was afterwards reproduced in pamphlet form, and has since been several times delivered as an address to various bodies, the last occasion being before the Legislature of Massachusetts, 1887.