Hand-Book for Cement Users (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Hand-Book for Cement Users The publication of the first edition of the Directory of American Cement Industries and Hand-Book for Cement Users in 1901, was the direct result of the many demands for information upon all subjects connected with the manufacture, sale and use of cement which have been made upon Municipal Engineering Magazine, and of the conclusion, drawn from close observation, that the time had arrived for the public of a book giving, more particularly from the practical and commercial standpoints, the answers to all the classes of questions which those interested in cement are asking. The instant success of the book proved the correctness of this conclusion. A new edition was called for in 1902, and it was much larger and more complete than the first edition. The rapid increase in the cement trades since 1900 shows in the greatly increased number of names in the directory sections, and when the third edition of the Directory of American Cement Industries was called for in 1904, it became so large that a separation was made and the third edition of the Directory was published without the Hand-Book. An extra edition of the Hand-Book section of the second edition of the combined book was published and bound separately, and has been sold as the Hand-Book for Cement Users. On account of this extra number the third edition of the Hand-Book was not called for until the end of 1901. Advantage is taken of this opportunity to rewrite those portions of the book in which progress has been made and especially to add a full statement of the use of concrete in buildings, in solid and hollow concrete walls, in hollow cement building blocks, in floors and in various forms of reinforced concrete construction. The latter treatment is extended to bridges, arches, culverts, etc., in amplification of and addition to what has appeared in early editions. The introductory chapter is revised in view of the great advances in the cement trade and in the uses to which cement is put. A review of these advances makes a considerable addition to the chapter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.