Hints to young architects, comprising advice to those who, while yet at school, are destined to the profession, to such as, having passed their pupilage, are about to travel and to those who, having completed their education, are about to practise, together with a model specification involving a great variety of instructive and suggestive matter (1887)
Wightwick, George · London, Lockwood · leaf 332
lings by their own pressure, or thatof the roof above them;—marginal sketchesshould be made, showing the disposition of theskeleton framing, with whatever iron-work isnecessary to its security.See, for instance, what aCarpenter may do, unlesswell directed: a roof c,bearing partly on the par-tition… … 320 FLOORS. and othertimbers.—Lintels, bond,partitions. Beams, joists, floor B, instead of being so truss-framed in itslength as to leave the floor unconscious of itsexistence. We presume no ignorance in theyoung Architect as to the manner of doing thesethings ; and only call on him not to suppose…
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