The resources and manufacturing industry of Ireland as illustrated by the exhibition of 1853 : being a series of essays on raw materials, machinery, and manufactures of various kinds; to which is appended the official catalogue of the exhibition : a portrait of Mr. Dargan, engraved on steel, with a memoir; and numerous illustrations on wood (1854)
Sproule, John, Exhibition of Art and Art-Industry (1853 : Dublin, Ireland), author, Sproule, John, editor · Dublin : Published by the editor · leaf 67
31 CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDING. It will readily be perceived that the truss of the gallery-roof has been designed to act as a buttress to the great roof, and distributes any tendency to horizontal motion it might exhibit over the adjoining space. Each of these trusses is carefully secured to lattice- … IB upper edge of which was planed true and smooth, on the blocks of masonry prepared to receive them. The lower part of the column was then Section showing Construction of Roofs and Galleries. simply dropped in its place, and secured by joining to it the wrouglit-iron girders intended to support…
Dargan, William, 1799-1867 · Exhibition of Art and Art-Industry (1853 : Dublin, Ireland) · Industries · Railroad engineering
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