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 38
^ thecolumns, is horizontal; and is composed of the architrave,frieze, and cornice. These principal parts are again dividedinto various members and mouldings. 21.—The Base: of a column is so called from basis, afoundation or footing. … INTERIOR OF ST. i T C > I 5 < i, I V il ^. PARTS OF AN ORDER. 15 22.—Tlie Shaft: the upright part of a column standingupon the base and crowned with the capital, is from shafto,to dig—in the manner of a well, whose inside is not unlikethe form of a column. 23.—The Capital: from kephale or…
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