{"product_id":"9781860940576","title":"Coulomb's Memoir on Statics: An Essay in the History of Civil Engineering","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoulomb read his Essai on ‘some statical problems’ to the French Academy in 1773. It is a document of great importance in the history of engineering since it laid the foundations of the modern science of soil mechanics and also discussed three other major problems of eighteenth-century civil engineering: the bending of beams, the fracture of columns and the calculation of abutment thrusts developed by masonry arches.Professor Heyman's book makes the Essai accessible to a wide range of engineers and historians of technology. It is here reproduced in full with an annotated English translation, a chapter elucidating Coulomb's references and with full discussion of the technical problems it treats. It concludes with some brief historical notes on Coulomb's life and technical education in eighteenth-century France.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Imperial College Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058115035376,"sku":"9781860940576","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781860940576_p0.jpg?v=1763600149","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781860940576","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}