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 40
tof the centre of the tie-beam, with tlie head of the truss. TABLE GIYING DIMENSIONS OF TIMBERS. Tie-beam 10X16 inches. Upper principal-rafters . . . 10X14 Lower ....10X12 Camber-beam 10 XH Tmss-rafter above do. do. . . 10 v 14 Spur-brace to do. do 10- 12 Straining-piece to do. do. . . 10x10… … Sar.i4- Sloan. Axcr. J-Lns^-.ati.aaE tiih Thil» PRINCIPLES AND CONSTRUCTION OF ROOFS. • 23 the edges. This was but gentle, the height from the ridge to the level of the wallnot exceeding one-ninth or one-eighth of the span, as may be seen by the remains ofmany of their ancient temples. In most of…
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