Building stone, lathing, plastering, and tiling, common brickwork, ornamental brickwork and terra cotta : lighting fixtures, use and design of lighting fixtures, architectural design (1909)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton : International Textbook Co. · leaf 233
Fig. 17 is illustrated an arch of molded bricksthat is used in the interior of the same building. This archis 9 feet and ^ inch span. Being an elliptic arch, it takes lessheadroom than would a circular arch. Although the arch inquestion was actually built with the intrados forming a per-fect… … Fig.18 this arch is that the intrados curve is less than a semicircle,thus making an angle with the line of the abutment instead ofbeing tangent to it. It is a three-rowlock arch constructedentirely of common bricks laid as stretchers. This form ofarch, unless bonded back into the rear wall with…
Building · Building materials · Architectural design · Lighting, Architectural and decorative
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