 | Robert Mallet - Earthquakes - 1862 - 546 pages
...their directions the most destructive. Thus the frightful loss of life and limb, were as much to be attributed to the ignorance and imperfection displayed,...unhappy natural condition of their country, as respects earthquake. In a wall of parallelopipedal blocks, properly overlapping and breaking joint, the aggregate... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Japan - Japan - 1882 - 390 pages
...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 displayed...the unhappy natural condition of their country as regards earthquakes." A very striking example of the advantage of solid construction over lightness... | |
 | Japan - 1874 - 426 pages
...most violent. Thus the frightful loss of life and limb were as much to be attributed to the iguorance and imperfection displayed in the domestic architecture...the unhappy natural condition of their country as regards earthquakes." A very striking example of the advantage of solid construction over lightness... | |
 | R. Henry Brunton - Civil engineering - 1991 - 302 pages
...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 displayed...the unhappy natural condition of their country as regards earthquakes." A very striking example of the advantage of solid construction over lightness... | |
 | Greg Clancey - History - 2006 - 346 pages
...the midst of chaotic ruin. . . . Thus the frightful loss of life and limb were as much attributable to the ignorance and imperfection displayed in the...the unhappy natural condition of their country as regards earthquakes."67 Milne's own work had aggressively disputed this statement, both its confidence... | |
 | Japan - 1873 - 750 pages
...violent. Thus the frightful loss of life and limb were as much to be attributed to the ignorance fmd imperfection displayed in the domestic architecture of the people, as to the unhappv natural condition of their country as regards earthquakes.'' A very striking example of the... | |
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... generally been substantially and well 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... 