From the February 13, 1932, issue
By Science News
TESTS SHOW STEEL COLUMNS STRENGTHENED BY BRICK WALL
Steel-frame buildings, from modest structures of just a few floors to the tallest skyscrapers, may be built more economically with the use of less steel as the result of facts discovered by research at the U.S. Bureau of Standards.
This study, which was carried out in the Engineering and Mechanics section of the Bureau under the direction of Dr. A.H. Stang, consisted of tests in the worlds largest testing machine of the strength of vertical steel columns of the kind used in the steel skeletons of buildings. Its results have upset the basis of an engineering practice that forms an important part of the countrys building codes.