Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : Ticknor and Co. · leaf 171
portionsof slighter guders with strut braces, we shall secure quite asmuch strength as in drawing A, and much less weight ofmetal—especially at the centre—and consequently greater bear-ing power. We shall thus have applied to structure in iron the networksystem of which the mediaeval architects… … Flo. G.—Iron Network Vaulting. clients uselessly. I am even disposed to think that the reticu-lated frame b would be quite as suitable for decoration as theframe A ; that is, if we determine to show the structure, andnot encase the iron-work in a mass of plaster of Paris, whichwould conceal the…
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