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Table of Contents<br />

Foreword.........................................................................................................................................iii<br />

Introduction.....................................................................................................................................iv<br />

Acknowledgments ..........................................................................................................................vi<br />

PART I: ABSTRACTS OF AMERICAN TRUSS BRIDGE PATENTS, A-Z.................................1<br />

PART II: PATENT CHRONOLOGY ORDERED BY TRUSS CONFIGURATION....................70<br />

Arch-Braced Trusses, 1817-1881.......................................................................................71<br />

Lattice Configurations, 1820-1887 ....................................................................................74<br />

Pratt Configurations, 1829-1895........................................................................................77<br />

Bowstring Configurations, 1830-1897...............................................................................80<br />

Howe Configurations, 1830-1894......................................................................................86<br />

Trusses with Multi-Panel Diagonal Struts, 1839-1885......................................................89<br />

Suspension Trusses, 1841-1892.........................................................................................91<br />

Trusses with Inclined Verticals, 1847-1885.......................................................................93<br />

Lenticular Configurations, 1849-1896...............................................................................95<br />

Indefinable and One-of-a-Kind Fanciful Truss Proposals, 1851-1897..............................97<br />

Warren Configurations, 1857-1898..................................................................................101<br />

Pratt Family of Trusses with Multi-Intersecting Diagonals, 1857-1877..........................104<br />

A-Frame, 1869-1894........................................................................................................106<br />

King-Post Configurations, 1870-1897.............................................................................107<br />

Queen-Post Configurations, 1876-1899...........................................................................109

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