Excerpt from Resolutions of the Conventions Held at Munich, Dresden, Berlin, and Vienna: For the Purpose of Adopting Uniform Methods for Testing Construction Materials With Regard to Their Mechanical PropertiesThe convention held in the autumn of 1884 at Munich, composed of representatives of all the technical professions, with the aim of unifying the methods of testing the principal materials of construction, neglect ing entirely any classification of those materials, was consequently jus tified. That convention succeeded in agreeing upon quite a series of important questions, while a certain number of others were referred to a permanent committee, which thoroughly discussed them, first in writ ing and then orally, at its two sessions held in Munich on the 2lst and 22d of September, and which finally submitted a report upon the results of its labors to a second convention, held in Dresden on the 2oth and 21st of September, 1886.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.