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 202
llelogram or triangle of forces. Themethod, so far as there explained, is adequate to solve sim-ple cases ; but when more than three pieces of a frame con-verge in one point, the task by that method becomes difficult.This difficulty, however, disappears when recourse is had tothe method known as…
Carpentry · Architecture · Building
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