Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : Ticknor and Co. · leaf 88
forms which theyemployed—-forms which are admirable where masonry only isused, but which are unmeaning where iron and masonry aresimiltaneously employed. Had the mediaeval architects possessedthe products of our metal manufactures, they woidd assuredly,in virtue of their logical and subtle… … e.ciniLBoiaDj:. Fig. -Method of combined Iron and Masoniy Vaulting. considerations—a height which often involved difficulty, and wasan occasion of expense. It is jjossible by means of u-on, employed as sinews andtendons, to construct vaulting of little rise and great span.Figure 6 sliows a method…
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