The careful text books measure - let all who build beware
the load, the stress, the pressure material can bear.
So when the buckling girder lets down the grinding span,
The blame of loss, or murder is laid upon the man.
Not on the stuff, the man.
-- Rudyard Kipling
the load, the stress, the pressure material can bear.
So when the buckling girder lets down the grinding span,
The blame of loss, or murder is laid upon the man.
Not on the stuff, the man.
-- Rudyard Kipling
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