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)
Fi^.l. … ROOFS. 55 PLATE 40. Fig. 1 is a very simple roof, designed upon the more recent principles which have revo-lutionized Carpentry. An oaken block is placed between the upper ends of the principalrafters, after the manner of a key-stone; the grain of the block running in the same direc-tion as that of…
Carpentry
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