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 217
N. Now, since E G l^ equalto one half of the upper load, and G D to one half of the low-er load, therefore their sum, EG+ GD = ED, is equal toone half of the total load, or to the reaction of each support,E or F. From D draw DA parallel with DA of Fig. 68, andfrom E draw E A parallel with E A oi…
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