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And the consequence was…
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I have to thank a great many people for factual information, suggestions and for stimulating and sometimes heated discussions. Among the living, my colleagues at Reading University have been generous with help, notably Professor W. D. Biggs (Professor of Building Technology), Dr Richard Chaplin, Dr Giorgio Jeronimidis, Dr Julian Vincent and Dr Henry Blyth; Professor Anthony Flew, Professor of Philosophy, made useful suggestions about the last chapter. I am also grateful to Mr John Bartlett, Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Brook Hospital. Professor T. P. Hughes of the University of the West Indies has been helpful about rockets and many other things besides. My secretary, Mrs Jean Collins, was a great help in times of trouble. Mrs Nethercot of Vogue was kind to me about dressmaking. Mr Gerald Leach and also many of the editorial staff of Penguins have exercised their accustomed patience and helpfulness. Among the dead, l owe a great deal to Dr Mark Pryor - lately of Trinity College, Cambridge - especially for discussions about biomechanics which extended over a period of nearly thirty years. Lastly, for reasons which must surely be obvious, l owe a humble oblation to Herodotus, once a citizen of Halicamassus.
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Book Title: Structures or Why things don’t fall down
Authors: J. E. Gordon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9074-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: J. E. Gordon 1978
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-9076-7Published: 07 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-9074-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 395
Topics: Civil Engineering
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