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 334
onlynecessary to caution the young practitioner onthe necessity of considering, that girders have toperform the duty of cross walls ; that they shouldbe trussed to prevent their sagging, even withtheir own weight ; that their scantling shouldallow for the weakening effect of the cuttingsmade into… … Rooft. has seen the bad effects of the shrinkage of oakstruts) ; and, especially, that the end of eachgirder, instead of being notched on perishabletemplates of wood, and close surrounded withmortar and masonry, should be housed in a cavity(as we have already described) with an ironholding plate ;…
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