The American house carpenter. A treatise on the art of building. Comprising styles of architecture, strength of materials, and the theory and practice of the construction of floors, framed girders, roof trusses, rolled-iron beams, tubular-iron girders, cast-iron girders, stairs, doors, windows, mouldings, and cornices; together with a compend of mathematics. A manual for the practical use of architects, carpenters, stair-builders, and others (1880)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879, Hatfield, O. P., ed · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 109
,and the intersection of those lines will indicate the point re- 72 CONSTRUCTION. quired. Or suspend the article by a cord or tliread attachedto one corner or edge ; also from the same point of suspen-sion hang a plumb-line, and mark i(s position on the face ofthe article; again, suspend the… … Fin. 32. 86.—Effect of the Weight of Inoliiie<1 Beani§.—An in-clined post or strut supporting some heavy pressure appliedat its upper end, as at Fi^. 25, exerts a pressure at its foot inthe direction of its length, or nearly so. But when such abeam is loaded uniformly over its whole length, as…
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