Journal of the Franklin Institute; devoted to science and the mechanic arts (1826)
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) · Oxford, Eng. [etc.] Pergamon Press [etc.] · leaf 711
were divided into a greater number of lights withtransoms; in king James the Firsts time, they became still more numerousin their divisions, but the mullion was not so bulky; and by degrees the win-dows had as many transoms as mullions, while every fresh complication ofmullions and transoms… … I am not aware of the exact time when the lines and weights for windows On the expansibility of different kinds of Stone. 213 were first introduced; but when they were known they soon became verygeneral, and, I have no doubt, assisted in the reduction of the mullion,which continued to dwindle to…
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