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 54
ch thing as an architecture of Roman invention, yetno nation, perhaps, ever was so devoted to the cultivationof the art as the Roman. Whether we consider the numberand extent of their structures, or the lavish richness andsplendor with which they were adorned, we are compelledto yield to them our… … PORTICO OF THE ERECTHEUM, ATHEKS. CHANGE OF STYLES BY THE ROMANS. 2/ yond anything- attempted in modern times. Aqueductswere built to convey water from a distance of 60 miles ormore. In the prosecution of this work rocks and mountainswere tunnelled, and valleys bridged. vSome of the latterdescended…
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