Ponts metalliques et fondations pneumatiques
Ponts metalliques et fondations pneumatiques is a late nineteenth-century French engineering treatise on iron bridges and compressed-air foundations, written by Ernest Goüin for the Société de Construction des Batignolles and published by Geoffroy in 1878. Its plates are measured technical drawings of masonry piers, cylindrical caissons and lattice-braced iron supports, with dimension lines and hatched stone. A designer could draw on their precise, restrained linework for architectural plans, diagrams of structure, and pale, ruled schematic layouts.
