A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 76
the adjoining masonry away to theright and left, as shown by the arrows. Anarch slightly more elaborate is the primitive archshown in Fig. 2. Here two wedge-shaped stoneslean against each other, and each one transmitspressures similar to those just described, thepressures at the respective upper… … ARCH lire at cadi of its oblique eiuls, wliile the com-bination of all these .six pressures results in alateral push on eacli abutment as shown by thearrows. This lateral ])usli, in Figs. 2 and .i, issimilar to that in Fig. 1, from whichit (lifters in direction, owing to theinclination of tlie end…
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