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 77
resist a considerable thrust, they aretotally unsuited to large spans, and are in every way inferiorto trussed roofs. The above remarks do not apply to the high pitched roofsof the large halls of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,which, for the most part, are trussed in a very perfect man-ner,…
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