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)
Fig. 3. Fig.Z. … Tiy.l. DOMES. 65 PLATE 50. Fig. 1 shows the plan of the preceding design, taken from just above the ceiling-line.Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the lantern, and Fig. 3 the roof of the same. 66 BRIDGES. PLATE 51. On this Plate is shown the centring for an arch, as appHed to a bridge. It is so…
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