WROUGHT IRON BRIDGE CO

(TRADE CATALOGUE)  WROUGHT IRON BRIDGE CO.  DESCRIPTIVE PAMPHLET OF THE WROUGHT IRON BRIDGES, BUILT BY THE WROUGHT IRON BRIDGE CO.                          

Canton, Ohio: Hartzell & Saxton, 1872. 8vo. Publishers printed yellow wrappers. Frontispiece, 48 pages, 11 plates.

Rare trade catalogue, this edition not listed in McKinstry, Hitchcock, or on OCLC,  However, OCLC does record four copies of the later 1874 edition.  It is printed in Canton, Ohio in 1872 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company who built many bridges in Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Michigan, Kansas, Tennessee, etc.  Twelve of the most important types of bridges which they built are illustrated with engineering diagrams on full pages, including column and channel arch bridges, wrought iron conical center swing bridge, wrought iron Pratt truss bridge, column arch girder bridge, etc.  All have detailed descriptions.  Very good. 

 

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