In a message dated 6/23/2004 12:34:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
> i am figuring there were riveted ( as opposed to bolted) connections fairly early on -- 1870's? or is riveted only for
> steel - and steel frames only arrived in mid-1890's?
You can rivet either steel or iron (or for that matter, just about anything else), and generally rivets were supplanted by bolts. Seems to me we discussed this sometime back, and that use of rivets pretty ended after The Big One.
Ralph
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