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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 68

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ore than 2 feet apart. These again should be cross-cleated with 1X3 inch strips, following the line of curve, at a distance of about 16 inches betweencentres; to these the plastering laths can be nailed, and thus those unseemly cracks in the plas-tering, which so frequently occur, owing to the… … 6 amS- Sloaii._A^ ch:t B.OS an-QiaTeXitb YJlil^ -^ PRINCIPLES AND CONSTRUCTION OF ROOFS. 37 feet, and divide the product by the cube of the thickness in inches. For pine, mul-tiply the quotient by 096, which will give the depth in inches. Case 2. To find the scantling of the rafter, when there are…

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