The American house-carpenter : a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs : together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1849)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 153
ll be the pressure, and vice versa. Hence tremendous strains may be exerted by a comparatively small weight. And it follows, therefore, that a piece of timber intend- ed for a strut or post, should be so placed that its axis may coin- cide, as near as possible, with the direction of the pressure.… … Fig. 183.
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