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 254
be thrown across, bywhich any degree of strength required may be obtained. * The lengths and bevils of rafters for rooUva/leys can also be found by theabove process. f See also Art 68. CONSTRUCTION OF DOMES. 217 Fig. 93 shows a section, and Fig. 94 the plan, of a dome ofthis kind, a b being the… … Fig. 94. and their strength must be calculated accordingly. (SeeArts, yo to 80 and 214 to 222.) If the dome is large and ofimportance, two other trusses may be introduced at rightangles to the foregoing, the tie-beams being preserved in
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