Ancient and Modern Engineering and the Isthmian Canal

Abstract

THIS is an English edition of a book published in America, and contains the outcome of six lectures delivered at the Cooper Union in New York, under the auspices of Columbia University. The first part deals with ancient civil engineering works and the remaining parts relate to bridge construction, waterworks for cities and towns, railroad engineering, and the Nicaragua and Panama routes for a ship canal. In the parts relating to modern engineering, the practice and examples described are those followed in America, therefore for English engineers Prof. Vernon Harcourt's book on “Civil Engineering as Applied in Construction,” recently reviewed in NATURE, which includes the subjects dealt with in the book now under notice, would be found of more service.

Ancient and Modern Engineering and the Isthmian Canal.

By Prof. William H. Burr. Pp. xv + 473. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1902.) Price 14s. 6d. net.