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Specifications for practical architecture; a guide to the architect, engineer, surveyor, and builder, with an essay on the structure and science of modern buildings (1886)

Rogers, Frederick, Bartholomew, Alfred, 1801-1845 · London, C. Lockwood and co. · leaf 98

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) The third example (probably of later date), is perhaps theearliest existing instance of a curious but excellent mode of pre-venting the voussoirs of level stone architraves or lintels fromsettling downwardly (Plate VIII., fig. 3), which became prevalentin various parts of Europe during the middle… … Plate VI I.

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