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 268
^ rising at b. After this, whilethe stones are being laid from a and from c to b, they act asstruts; the piece f g is added for additional security.Upon this plan, with some variation to suit circumstances, … Fig. 109. centres may be constructed for any span usual in stone-bridge building. In bridge centres, the principal timbers should abut, andnot be intercepted by a suspension or radial piece between.These should be in halves, notched on each side and bolted.The timbers should intersect as little as…
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