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The carpenter's new guide; a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery, treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, groins, niches, roofs, and domes, and containing a great variety of original designs. Also a full exemplification of the theory and practice of stair building, cornices, mouldings, and dressings of every description. Including also some observations and calculations on the strength of timber (1854)

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844, Davis, Noah Knowles, 1830- ed, Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, ed · Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co. · leaf 129

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Fig. 6 . TRUSSING. 51 PLATE 86. TRUSSING. Figs. 1 and 2 show the methods of giving the requisite stiffness to joists. Stout oaklaths, nailed on in the manner represented, improve their qualities in this respect very much. Figs. 3 and 4 exhibit a method for trussing girders. A is the king-bolt, and…

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