An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 646
t they would be liable ofthemselves to sag down, supports aa are introduced at the points where such failures wouldoccur, and these supjiorts arc called struts, because their office is to strut up the raftei,wliich they should do as nearly as the ease will admit in a direction perpendicular to… … KiK-CSI.
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