4 SCIENTIFIC BOOKS PUBLISHED BY 
Shreve on Bridges and Roofs. 
8vo, 87 wood-cut illustrations. Cloth. $ 5.00. 
A TREATI8E ON THE STRENGTH OF BRIDGES AND 
ROOFS—eomprising the determination of Algebraic formulas 
for Strains in Horizontal, Inclined or Rafter, Triangulär, Bow- 
string, Lenticular and other Trasses, from fixed and moving 
loads, with practical applications and examples, for the use of 
Students and Engineers. By Samuel H. Shreve, A.M., Civil 
Engineer. 
* On the whole, Mr. Shreve has produced a book which is the simplest, 
clearest, and at the same time, the inost systematic and with the best inath- 
ematical reasoning of any work lipon the same subject in the language.”— 
1iailroad Gazette. 
“ From the unusually clear language in which Mr. Shreve has given every 
Statement, the Student will have but himself to blame if he does not become 
tkorough master of the subject.”—London Mining Journal. 
“ Mr. Shreve has produced a work that must always take high rank as a 
text-book, * * * and no Bridge Engineer shouid be without it, as a 
valuable work of reference, and one that will frequently assist him out of 
difficulties.”—Franklin Institute Journal. 
The Kansas City Bridge. 
4to. Cloth. $6.00 
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE REGIMEN OF THE MIS 
SOURI RIVER, and a description of the Methods used for 
Founding in that River. By 0. Chanute, Chief Engineer, and 
George MonrsoN, Assistant Engineer. Illustrated with five 
lithographic views and twelve plates of plans. 
Illustrations. 
Views.—View of the Kansas City 
Bridge, August 2, 1869. Lowering 
Caisson No. 1 into position. Caisson 
for Pier No. 4 brought into position. 
View of Foundation Works, Pier No. 
4. Pier No. 1. 
Plates.—I. Map showing location 
of Bridge. II. Water Record—Cross 
Section of River—Profile of Crossing 
—Pontoon Protection. III. Water 
Deadener—Caisson No. 2—Founda 
tion Works, Pier No. 3. IV. Founda 
tion Works, Pier No. 4. V. Founda 
tion Works, Pier No. 4. VI. Caisson 
No. 5—Sheet Piling at Pier No. 6— 
Details of Dredges—Pile Shoe—Beton 
Box. VII. Masonry—Draw Protec 
tion—False Works between Piers 3 
| and 4. Vm. Floating Derricks. 
\ IX. General Elevation—176 feet span. 
X. 248 feet span. XL Plans of Draw. 
j XII. Strain Diagrams.