PREFACE

The object aimed at in ths work is the collection and
classification in one handy volume of all the known
devices and methods in use in every branch of civil
engineering work, in the form of sketches or brief
drawings and descriptions, sufficient to enable an
engineer to make a selection without overloading the
matter with detail, which every competent engineer can
readily design for himself.

There are numerous published works dealing with special
branches of engineering, or parts of such, in full 
detail, which may be consulted for details; but no 
general illustrated index such as is presented in the
following pages.

It is hoped that this index may be of the same service 
to the active civil engineer as the <i>Engineer's Sketch-book</i> 
has proved to be to the mechanical engineer.

T.W.BARBER