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 377
lines ; the few curvesthey possess are quite short and quick. Figs. 230 and 231 are designs for antce caps. The di-ameter of the antae is divided into 20 equal parts, and theheight and projection of the members are regulated in ac-cordance with those parts, as denoted under H and P, heightand… … Fig. 230. Fig. 231. etc. The height of the antae for mantelpieces should befrom 5 to 6 diameters, having an entablature of from 2 to2\ diameters. This is a good proportion, it being similar tothe Doric order. But for a portico these proportions are * The manner of ascertaining the length of the…
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