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Item
Title
617-25
Date(s)
- 1932 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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ca. 1932. Professor Bror Grondal, University of Washington School of Forestry, expounding the "probability of stability of shape cross sections in wood at intersection of offset members." He is using a section of Houston Treated Wood Street Gutter as an example. The "Houston Fabricated Street Gutters" were manufactured by the Houston Treated Wood Co., owned by Tacoman Ross Houston, and were patented in the US and Canada. (filed with Argentum)
Grondal, Bror; Lumber industry--Tacoma--1930-1940; Gutters (Streets)--Tacoma--1930-1940; Houston Fabricated Street Gutters (Tacoma); Houston Treated Wood Co. (Tacoma);