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 213
iS^.-^ Fig. 57. should be placed so as to form, as near as possible, an angleof 40 degrees with the horizon. The braces in a partitionshould be so placed as to discharge the weight upon the P^. R^ \-Y/ ^, r ^ 1^ y Fig. 58. points of support. All oblique pieces that fail to do thisshould be omitted.…
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