A treatise on architecture and building construction (1899)
International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 119
e wall should also be kept in line, sothat if the perpends are observed on one face of the wall, theother face will also work up correctly. Even when the wallis exposed on only one face, it is just as essential to have thejoints on top of the wall kept in line, as otherwise its effect-ive… … Fig. 75. to Fig. 75, which represents a section of a wall consisting ofalternate courses of stretchers and headers. By the method of placing the brick as shown, no longitu-dinal bond exists, and the wall is simply a series of isolatedpiers which join each other at the vertical line e-d, and haveno…
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