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 261
ployed even where the banksof the river are low, by letting the timbers for the roadwayrest immediately upon the tie-beam. In this case the irame-work above will serve the purpose of a railing. 224 CONSTRUCTION. Fig. 104 exhibits a wooden bridge without a tie-beam.Where staunch buttresses can be… … Fig. 104. 24-3.—Bridges: Built-Rib.—Fig. 105 represents a bridgewith a built-rib (see Art. 231) as a chief support. The curveof equihbrium will not differ much from that of a parabola;this, therefore, may be used—especially if the rib is made
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