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Rudiments of the art of building : represented in five sections [...] for the use of architects, builders, draghtsmen, machinists, engineers and mechanics (1853)

Bullock, John · New York : Stringer & Townsend · leaf 52

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e thickness throughouttheir length, a difficulty arises from the thickness of the mor-tar joints at the extrados being greater than at the intrados,thus causing settlement and sometimes total failure. Toobviate this difficulty, it is usual to build brick arches in se-parate rings of the thickness… … * This diagram is slightly altered from one of the illustrations to ProfessorWilliss paper -On the Construction of the Vaults of the Middle Ages, in th©Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Vol. I., Part 2. 48 RUDIMENTS OP THE ever, a strong objection to this plan, viz., that,…

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