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 78
building are founded. Ascientific knowledge of these will insure certainty and secu-rity, and enable the mechanic to erect the most extensiveand lofty edifices with confidence. The more importantparts are the foundation, the column, the wall, the lintel,the arch, the vault, the dome, and the roof.… … STRUCTURAL FEATURES OF A BUILDING. 47 57.—The Foiiiidatioii: of a building should be begunat a certain depth in the earth, to secure a solid basis, belowthe reach of frost and common accidents. The most solidbasis is rock, or gravel which has not been moved. Nextto these are clay and sand, provided…
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