Plate, strains in interior of beams with ends resting on piers by [George Biddell Airy] Figures 8-9 from plate VII showing diagrams of the strain in the interior of beams with their ends resting on piers. Figure 8 shows a beam with a strain on either end and figure 9 shows a beam with a strain on one end. Subject: Physics Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the strains in the Interior of beams'. Written by Airy at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Received by the Royal Society on 6 November 1862. Read 11 December 1862. 30 September 1862