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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 165

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of timber. When the stress that a given load exerts in any particular direction, has been ascertain- ed, before the proper size of the timber can be determined for the resistance of that pressure, the strength of the kind of timber to be used must be known. The following rules for calculating the… … Fig. 198. The strength of a piece of timber, is to be considered in ac- cordance with the direction in which the strain is applied upon

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