Radford's cyclopedia of construction; carpentry, building and architecture. Based on the practical experience of a large staff of experts in actual constrcution work (1909)
Johnson, Alfred Sidney, 1860-, Radford, William A., 1865- · Chicago Radford Architectural Co · leaf 63
, asshown in the figure. 52 PRACTICAL CARPENTRY Fig. 61 is an illustration of a segmental archshown in connection with a window opening. The Horse=shoe Arch.—^This is almost re-stricted to the Arabian or Moorish style of archi-tecture. In this form of arch the curve is carriedbelow the line of… … Fig. 59. really so, it must be seen that any weight or pres-sure on the crown of the arch would cause it tobreak at B; but the fact is simply that the realbearings of the arch are at B B, and the prolonga-tion of the arch beyond these points is merely amatter of form and has no structural…
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