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Historic Shape References

Historic Shape References

Carnegie (later years cross-posted with USS)

Year Title Edition Notes Company
1892 Pocket Companion Containing Useful Information and Tables, Appertaining to the Use of Wrought Iron and Steel  1892  Carnegie Phipps & Co., Limited 
1893 Pocket Companion Containing Useful Information and Tables, Appertaining to the Use of Steel  1893  Carnegie Steel Company, Limited 
1896 Pocket Companion Containing Useful Information and Tables, Appertaining to the Use of Steel  1896  Carnegie Steel Company, Limited 
1896 Pocket Companion Containing Useful Information and Tables, Appertaining to the Use of Steel  1896  Carnegie Steel Company, Limited 
1900 Table of Weights of Rectangular and Circular Steel Plates, Together with Table Giving Extreme Sizes Rolled by Carnegie Steel Company  1894  Carnegie Steel Company, Limited 
1900 Pocket Companion Containing Useful Information and Tables, Appertaining to the Use of Steel  1900  Carnegie Steel Company
1903 Pocket Companion-Containing Useful Information and Tables Appertaining to the Use of Steel  1900 (Revised 1903)  Carnegie Steel Company 
1903 Pocket Companion-Containing Useful Information and Tables Appertaining to the Use of Steel  1900 (Revised 1903) 

Carnegie Steel Company

1909 Supplement No. 12 to Shape Book, 1903 Twenty-Third  Carnegie Steel Company
1913 Pocket Companion for Engineers, Architects and Builders Containing Useful Information and Tables, Appertaining to the Use of Steel  Sixteenth  Carnegie Steel Company 
1913 Pocket Companion for Engineers, Architects and Builders Containing Useful Information and Tables, Appertaining to the Use of Steel  Sixteenth  Carnegie Steel Company 
1915 Shape Book Containing Profiles, Tables, and Data Appertaining to the Shapes, Plates, Bars, Rails, and Track Accessories  Fifth  Carnegie Steel Company 
1921 Pocket Companion for Engineers, Architects and Builders Containing Useful Information and Tables, Appertaining to the Use of Steel  Twenty-Second  Carnegie Steel Company 
1923 Pocket Companion for Engineers, Architects and Builders Containing Useful Information and Tables, Appertaining to the Use of Steel  Twenty-Third  Carnegie Steel Company
1925 Rolled Steel Plates for Column Bases-Bearing Plates, Bridge Shoes, Machinery Bases, etc.  First  Carnegie Steel Company 
1925 Standard Specifications-Steel for Bridges and Buildings, Locomotives and Cars, Boilers and Boiler Rivets, Commercial and Forging Bars, Reinforcement Bars, Forgings, Railway and Industrial Wheels, Axles and Shafts  Tenth  Carnegie Steel Company 
1925 Steel Mine Timber-Tables and Data on the Properties and Uses of Mine Timber Sections  Eighth  Carnegie Steel Company 
1926 Structural Steel Shapes -Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  First  Carnegie Steel Company 
1927 Carnegie Beam Sections-Profiles, Properties and Safe Loads for New Series of Structural Steel Beams and Column Sections First  Carnegie Steel Company 
1928 Carnegie Beam Sections-Profiles, Properties and Safe Loads for Additions to New Series of Structural Steel Beams and Column Sections 
Second 
Carnegie Steel Company 
1929 Carnegie Beam Sections-Profiles, Properties and Safe Loads for Additions to New Series of Structural Steel Beams and Column Sections  Third  Carnegie Steel Company 
1929 Carnegie Shape Book-Profiles, Tables, and Data for Rolled Products, Shapes, Plates, Bars and Rails  Tenth  Carnegie Steel Company 
1930 Pocket Companion Abridged Edition-Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  First  Carnegie Steel Company 
1931  Light Rails and Fastenings Steel Cross Ties for Mines, Quarries, Plantations and Portable Track Second  Carnegie Steel Company, Illinois Steel Company 
1931 Pocket Companion Abridged Edition-Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  Abridged  Carnegie Steel Company, Illinois Steel Company 
1933 Supplement to Pocket Companion Abridged Edition CB Sections Uniform Series    Carnegie Steel Company, Illinois Steel Company 
1933 Supplement to Pocket Companion Abridged Edition CB Sections Uniform Series    Carnegie Steel Company, Illinois Steel Company 
1934 Additions to Supplement Pocket Companion Abridged Edition-Light Beams Stanchions & Joists  Abridged  Carnegie Steel Company 
1934 Pocket Companion-Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  Twenty-fourth  Carnegie Steel Company, Illinois Steel Company, United States Steel Company
1934 Pocket Companion-Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  Twenty-fourth  Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Columbia Steel Company & Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company, United States Steel Company 
1936 Pocket Companion-Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  Twenty-fourth (reprinted 1936)  Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Columbia Steel Company & Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company, United States Steel Company
1936 Pocket Companion-Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  Twenty-fourth (reprinted 1936)  Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Columbia Steel Company & Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company, United States Steel Company 
1938 U.S.S Carilloy Steels    Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation 
1940 U.S.S Structural Sections-Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  First  Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Columbia Steel Company & Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company

Columbia

Year Title Edition Notes Company
1940  Wire Rope-Catalog of Sizes, Grades, Constructions, Price Lists, Data Tables and Information on the Proper Use of Wire Rope   Columbia Steel Company 
1963  Hot Rolled Steel Shapes and Plates Revised  Columbia-Geneva Steel Division, Tennessee Coal and Iron Division, National Tube Division & United States Steel Corporation 

Fleming

Year Title Edition Notes Company
1944 Fleming Bros Section Book Seventh Fleming Bros

Gray & Gronau

Year Title Edition Notes Company
1896 The Gray Column-Tables of Safe Loads Fourth Gray & Gronau

Inland

Year Title Edition Notes Company
1909 Open Hearth Steel Products-Billets, Bars, Structural and Special Shapes, Sheets   Inland Steel Company
1925 Supplement to 1921 Catalogue   Inland Steel Company
1940 Inland Steel Products
Seventh
Inland Steel Company
1946 Inland Steel Products Descriptions and Sizes Rolled Eighth Inland Steel Company

Kaiser

Year   Title Edition Notes  Company 
1950 Kaiser Steel General Catalog    Kaiser Steel Corporation
1953  Kaiser Steel General Catalog  Second  Kaiser Steel Corporation 

Lackawanna

Year Title Edition Notes Company
1914 Hand Book Containing General Information for the Use of Engineers, Architects and Builders 1915 Lackawanna Steel Company

Lukens

Year Title Edition Notes Company
1898 Lukens Iron & Steel Co. Handbook Second Lukens Iron & Steel Co.

National

Year Title Edition Notes Company
1921 Handbook of National Steel Lumber Second The National Pressed Steel Co.

Passaic

 Year Title  Edition Notes   Company
1897 A Manual of Useful Information and Tables Appertaining to the Use of Structural Steel    The Passaic Rolling Mill Co. 
1903  Structural Steel & Iron-A Manual of Useful Information and Tables Appertaining to the Use of Structural Steel minor changes to 1899 and 1901 editions  Passaic Steel Company 

Pencoyd

Year Title Edition Notes   Company
1891  Wrought Iron and Steel in Construction  Seventh  Pencoyd Iron Works, A. & P. Roberts Company
1897  Pencoyd Iron Works, A. & P. Roberts Company  pages are from the tenth edition of "Steel in Construction" (A. & P. Roberts Company, 1898)  Pencoyd Iron Works, A. & P. Roberts Company
1898  Steel in Construction-Convenient Rules, Formulae and Tables for the Strength of Steel Shapes Used as Beams, Struts, Shafts, etc.  Tenth  Pencoyd Iron Works, A. & P. Roberts Company

Phoenix

Year Title  Edition Notes  Company
1923 Structural and Shipbuilding Shapes    The Phoenix Iron Co. 
1932  Structural and Shipbuilding Shapes   The Phoenix Iron Co. 
1938  Structural and Shipbuilding Shapes    The Phoenix Iron Co. 
1938  Structural and Shipbuilding Shapes   The Phoenix Iron Co.

Pittsburgh

Year  Title  Edition Notes  Company 
1910 Description and Specifications of Pittsburgh Standardized Reinforcement    Pittsburgh Steel Products Co. 
1937  Pittsburgh Seamless Steel Mechanical Tubing   
Pittsburgh Steel Co. 

Pottsville

Year Title Edition Notes Company
1885 Useful Information for Architects, Engineers, and Workers in Wrought Iron   Pottsville Iron and Steel Co.

Republic

 Year Title  Edition Notes  Company
1914 Discount Sheet for Estimating-Hand Book  Edition D  The Republic Structural Iron Works Company

Ryerson

Year  Title Edition Notes  Company
1927 Ryerson Metal Working Small Tools and Machinery    Joseph T. Ryerson & Son Inc. 

USS (cross-posted with Carnegie)

Year   Title Edition Notes   Company
1934 Pocket Companion-Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  Twenty-fourth  Carnegie Steel Company, Illinois Steel Company, United States Steel Company
1934 Pocket Companion-Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  Twenty-fourth  Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Columbia Steel Company & Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company, United States Steel Company
1936 Pocket Companion-Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  Twenty-fourth (reprinted 1936)  Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Columbia Steel Company & Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company, United States Steel Company
1936 Pocket Companion-Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  Twenty-fourth (reprinted 1936)  Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Columbia Steel Company & Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company, United States Steel Company
1938 U.S.S Carilloy Steels    Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
1940 U.S.S Structural Sections-Information and Tables for Engineers and Designers and Other Data Pertaining to Structural Steel  First  Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Columbia Steel Company & Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Compan 
1946 Hot Rolled Carbon Steel Structural Shapes    United States Steel, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Columbia Steel Company & Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company
1948 Hot Rolled Carbon Steel Structural Shapes    United States Steel, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Columbia Steel Company & Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company
1950 Hot Rolled Carbon Steel Structural Shapes    United States Steel Company, Columbia Steel Company & Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company