| Asiatic Society of Japan - Japan - 1882 - 390 pages
...built or rather the materials scientifically put together, very few buildings would have actually been shaken down even in those localities where the shocks were most violent. Thus the frightful loss of life and limb were as much to be attributed to the ignorance and imperfection... | |
| R. Henry Brunton - Civil engineering - 1991 - 302 pages
...built or rather the materials scientifically put together, very few buildings would have actually been shaken down even in those localities where the shocks were most violent. Thus the frightful loss of life and limb were as much to be attributed to the ignorance and imperfection... | |
| Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - Civil engineering - 1886 - 618 pages
...for in reference to the Neapolitan earthquake of 1857 he wrote : 2 "It was evident, that had the town generally been substantially and well built, or, rather,...the frightful loss of life and limb were as much to bo attributed to the ignorance and imperfection displayed in the domestic architecture of the people,... | |
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