Radford's cyclopedia of construction; carpentry, building and architecture. Based on the practical experience of a large staff of experts in actual constrcution work
A twelve-volume American trade cyclopedia on carpentry, building and architecture, compiled by William A. Radford and Alfred Sidney Johnson from the work of staff builders and issued by the Radford Architectural Co. in Chicago in 1909 for contractors, tradesmen and correspondence students. The plates are line engravings of plumbing and heating systems in section and elevation dash well pipes in cut-away earth, hot-water tanks, radiators, valves and faucets dash with hand-lettered labels and leader lines, useful for technical diagram motifs, pipe-run patterns and cross-hatched section textures.
