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 96
atthe bottom of the queen-post; the foot of the brace; and the iron stirrup which sustains the tie-beam. Fig. G is explanatory of the several connections at the heels of the rafters with the tie-beam, look-out joists, gutter, etc. TABLE OF SCANTLINGS. Tie-beam 9X16 inches. Principal-rafter 9X14… … S arrt?-Sio amAr cIl _tlr:.se-nfc.&i^ Tvfb^i^l, SPIRES; TUEIll ORIGIN AND STYLE. 51 the spire, solely on account of the increased outlay which its erection would involve.Heavy and costly spires of stone, similar to those of the mediaeval times, are there-fore in most cases too expensive, and in…
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