The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 100
France and (icrmany, a building being erected issurrounded by a forest of timbers supporting the scaffolding. In this countrytime is everything, and builders will not go to the ex|)ense of such ratheruseless constructions. In five years in Xew ^ork alone there were 660 deathscaused by falls from… … Safety Platforms at Top of Eighth Floor 319 buildings were erected with its aid, and 8.265 machines were employed,and the men were all unharmed. The construction will be readily understood by reference to the engrav-ing. The scaffold is interrupted so as to make sections ten feet long. Atthe ends…
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