A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 384
of slender andshaftlike proportions builttriangular in plan, for atleast a part of its height,as a specially sacred me-morial. Several exist inEurope, but all of the sev-enteenth and eighteenthcentiuies, from which it ap-pears that the fashion is oflate origin. Triumphal Column.Same as Manubial… … vertical pressure, itcannot be fracturedtransversely by anytendency to lat-eral bending. Thisjiroportionof .safetyvaries aicording tothe material used,a column of iron orsteel being nuichmore slender for agiven ser\-ice thanone of stone ormarble, which findsits idea of stabil-ity in the…
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