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 72
on and principal rafters, showing the construction of the cornice by aid of the look-outjoists; the manner in which the heel-piece is bolted to the principal; and also how the lower endof the camber-rod intersects the rafter and is secured. Fig. 4 shows the manner in which thecollar-beam is… … ~a- - LcazL i-~r.*- J^.oserr^.AL s!iis^^}ul^ SPIRES; THEIR PROBABLE ORIGIN AND PECULIARITIES OF STYLE. Having reviewed Domes and Eoofs, briefly noticing their most remarkable features,and giving such historical information in regard to their origin and progress as mightbe deemed interesting, we…
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