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)
7%. 2. … ROOFS. ^^ PLATE B8. HOOFS. Fie. 1 is calculated for a small building. The ends of the ridge-pole, purlins, and plates,shown in this and the following cases. The span may be twenty or twenty-five feet. Fi^. 2 is a roof for the purlins to be framed in. The dotted lines show the lower edgeof the…
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