 | Bonamy Dobrée - Literary Collections - 1964 - 196 pages
...the 'Hymn of Breaking Strain', the load to which men are ruthlessly subjected. A portion of it reads: The careful text-books measure (Let all who build...beware!) The load, the shock, the pressure Material can hear. . . . But, in our daily dealing With stone and steel, we find The Gods have no such feeling Of... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1975 - 1542 pages
...based upon those measurements . Rudyard Kipling put the idea very strikingly in one of his brief poems. The careful text-books measure, Let all who build beware, The load, the strain the pressure That materials can bear. For when the creaking girder Lets down the grinding span... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English poetry - 2002 - 188 pages
...cabo, lo lastimoso de nuestros esfuerzos... Non nobis Domine!... El mérito no es nuestro. 165 1 HE careful text-books measure (Let all who build beware!)...buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, 'The blame ofloss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Staff — the Man! But in our daily dealing With... | |
 | Michel Barsoum, M.W Barsoum - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 642 pages
...models and summarize the current sintering paradigms. Chapter 11 Mechanical Properties: Fast Fracture The careful text-books measure (Let all who build...Is laid upon the man. Not on the stuff — the Man! R. Kipling, "Hymn of the Breaking Strain" 11.1 Introduction Sometime before the dawn of civilization,... | |
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But in our daily dealing With stone and steel, we find The Gods have no such feeling Of justice toward mankind. To no set gauge they make us,— For no laid course prepare— And presently o'ertake us With loads we cannot bear. Too merciless to bear. 