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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 165

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ROOFS. 63 PLATE 48. This Plate presents a design for an arched roof of very great span. It may extend asmuch as one hundred and twenty feet, or even more, with safety, if the buttresses are verystrong. The arch is made by bending stout planks to the desired curve, and bolting themtogether, which…

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