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 161
ial. Thesimplest form is the best, not only because it is the mosteconomical, but for many other reasons. The great numberof joints, in a complex design, render the construction liableto derangement by multiplied compressions, shrinkage, and,in consequence, highly increased oblique strains ; by… … Fig. 39. Spanning the width of the building, as seen at Fig. 39. Oc-
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