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Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

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I beam

construction

Also known as: Hodgkinson’s beam

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In Eaton Hodgkinson
…the eventual design of the I-beam, also known as the “Hodgkinson’s beam.”
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