Appleton's cyclopædia of drawing, designed as a textbook for the mechanic, architect, engineer, and surveyor (1866)
Worthen, William Ezra, 1819-1897, [from old catalog] ed, Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1866. D. Appleton & co.) [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 349
ormly distributed of 80,000 lbs.; the struts c d, c d\being 3 feet, and the middle interval 12 feet, and the end ones 14 feeteach? Tlien each point c, c^ supports / + y ~ 40 or \l oi the weight,and the side walls /^ each. J- X 80,000 = 26,000, w^eight on c or c. 4/14 + 3 = 14.32, length of… … Fiff. 48. in G.g. 48, in wMcli the load is uniformly distributed. K we represent theload at each of the points, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, &c.,,by 1, the load at 4 will besupported | upon a and J upon 3; hence the strut 3 will have to supporta load of 1 + .5 = 1.5; of this, | will be supported by 2 and |…
