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Don Harris CSI, CCS, CCCA, AIA Senior Member Username: don_harris
Post Number: 221 Registered: 03-2003
| Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 12:01 pm: | |
Hopefully I'm not repeating something that everyone already knows, but www.archive.org has an amazing collection of old scanned books. I took the reference list from Ralph's referenced article and came up with the following links. Some interesting stuff. Bartholomew, Alfred (1840), Specifications for practical architecture, John Williams & Co., London. http://www.archive.org/details/specificationsf00bartgoog http://www.archive.org/details/specificationsf01bartgoog (1886 Second Edition) Bower, W. Frank (1896), Specifications, USA. http://www.archive.org/details/specificationspr00bowerich Dobson, Edward (1849), Rudiments of the art of building, Weale, London. http://www.archive.org/details/rudimentsofartof00dobsrich International Correspondence Schools (1900), Question paper: Specifications, The Colliery Engineer Company, Scranton, USA. http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=international%20correspondence%2 0schools (Not the exact book, but an interesting series) Kirby, Richard Shelton (1913), The elements of specification writing - A text-book for students in civil engineering, John Wiley & Sons, New York. http://www.archive.org/details/elementsofspecif00kirbrich Leaning, John (1901), Building specifications for the use of architects, surveyors, builders, &c., B.T. Batsford, London. http://www.archive.org/details/buildingspecific00leanuoft Macey, Frank (1898), Specifications in detail, E & FN Spon, London. http://www.archive.org/details/specificationsin00macerich Wightwick, George (1847), Hints to young architects, together with a model specification, New York & London. http://www.archive.org/details/hintstoyoungarc00wighgoog Enjoy |
Phil Kabza Senior Member Username: phil_kabza
Post Number: 387 Registered: 12-2002
| Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 10:54 pm: | |
Don, What an amazing resource. I think I've run into the 1913 specs from some of our region's civil engineers. I wondered where they got them. |
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