Sloan's constructive architecture : a guide to the practical builder and mechanic. In which is contained a series of designs for domes, roofs and spires, with a number of plates showing the interior construction and finish of bays, window shutters, sliding doors, etc., designed expressly for the joiners use; choice examples of the five orders of architecture, selected fromthe most celebrated specimens of antiquity, with the figured dimensions of their height, projection and profile, and their division into parts,; to which is added a number of useful geometrical problems, examples of groins, centering for arches, diagrams of stair lines, with architraves, door mouldings, etc., the whole being accompanied by explanatory text and general essays, to which is appended a copious glossay (1859)
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884 · Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 120
ace, in order to give them abearing in grooves, which are cut in the sides of the cavities which receive the shutters. Ifarranged in this manner the sections may be taken out separately, if necessary; that in the centreshould be of brass; those at the sides of iron. Shutters of this description may… … Fi-S,/ CARPENTRY AND JOINERY. 63 PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON WOOD. 1. The wood immediately surrounding the pith, or heart, is the weakest; andits inferiority is so much the more remarkable as the tree is older. It is certain,from experiments on large oaks and pines, that the heart is much weaker than…
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