This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...It was quite evident to them that it extended a short distance up the face of the dam. Reference had been made to the memoir of Messrs. Pearson and Pollard, in which it was stated that the stresses obtained from a model slab dam could not agree with those in a solid dam. The Authors had satisfied themselves that in all parts of their models above line 6, the stresses investigated could not be very different from those in a solid dam. Below line 6, they recognized that there might be differences, and these were discussed in the Paper. They were glad that Mr. Martin had entered into this discussion; he was no novice at the application of the higher mathematics to practical problems, and in his correspondence in the technical journals with Professor Karl Pearson1 he had proved 1...