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Bibliographic information
| Title | American Civil Engineers' Handbook |
| Editor | Mansfield Merriman |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 1920 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Feb 26, 2009 |
| Length | 1955 pages |
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