A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 379
min of Trajan, the column in the PlaceVendome in Paris, etc. Trinity Column. Amonument of slender andshaftlike proportions builttriangular in plan, for atleast a part of its height,as a specially sacred me-morial. Several exist inEurojie, but all of the sev-enteenth and eighteenthcenturies, from… … vertical pressure, itcannot be fracturedtransvereely by anytendency to lat-eral bending. Thisproportion of safetyvaries according tothe material used,a column of iron orsteel being muchmore slender for agiven service thanone of stone ormarble, wliich findsits idea of stabil-ity in the propor-tions…
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