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)
A girder, well constructed on this plan, will support a brickwall built upon it. 52 TRUSSING, PLATE 37. This Plate exhibits two designs for trussed partitions. It is a matter of great difficultyto construct partitions so as not to spring and crack the plastering; especially when there isno support…
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