Modern buildings : their planning, construction and equipment (1905)
Middleton, G. A. T. (George Alexander Thomas) · London : Caxton Publishing Company, Limited · leaf 147
Commencing Brickwork 129 main points of the building in the manner already to mark the exact spot where the angle occurs. The shown, a fair degree of accuracy only being necessary. point B is now determined by measurement from sur- Wooden trestles of the nature shown in Fig. 190 are rounding… … then erected near all these pegs, as shown in Fig. 187*, and sufficiently far from them to be out of the way of the subsequent excavations. The horizontal bars of these trestles should all be at the same level and fixedi with its head just above the ground, and a strip of wood quite horizontally.…
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