Dinglers polytechnisches journal, Volume 14

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Johann Gottfried Dingler, Emil Maximilian Dingler
J. G. Cotta, 1824
 

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Page 270 - THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF CARPENTRY. A Treatise on the Pressure and Equilibrium of Timber Framing, the Resistance of Timber, and the Construction of Floors, Arches, Bridges, Roofs, Uniting Iron and Stone with Timber, &c. To which is added an Essay on the Nature and Properties of Timber, &c., with Descriptions of the kinds of Wood used in Building ; also numerous Tables of the Scantlings of Timber for different purposes, the Specific Gravities of Materials, &c. By THOMAS TREDGOLD, CE With an Appendix...
Page 270 - The CARPENTER'S NEW GUIDE, being a complete Book of Lines for Carpentry and Joinery, treating fully on Practical Geometry, Soffits, Brick and Plaster Groins, Niches of every Description, Skylights, Lines for Roofs and Domes, with a great Variety of Designs for Roofs, Trussed Girders, Floors, Domes, Bridges, &c.
Page 268 - Observations on English Architecture, Military, Ecclesiastical, and Civil, compared with similar Buildings on the Continent: including a critical Itinerary of Oxford and Cambridge; also Historical Notices of Stained Glass, Ornamental Gardening, &c.
Page 268 - PLANS, ELEVATIONS, and SECTIONS of BUILDINGS, Public and Private, executed in various Parts of England, &c. including the New Custom House, London, with Plans, Details, and Descriptions.
Page 142 - History of the Origin and Establishment of Gothic Architecture, and an Inquiry into the mode of Painting upon and Staining Glass, as practised in the Ecclesiastical Structures of the Middle Ages.
Page 384 - Advowsons, &c. , and for the Renewing of Leases held under Cathedral Churches, Colleges, or other corporate bodies ; for Terms of Years certain, and for Lives ; also for Valuing Reversionary Estates, Deferred Annuities, Next Presentations, &c., together with Smart's Five Tables of Compound Interest, and an Extension of the same to lower and Intermediate Rates. By WILLIAM INWOOD, Architect.
Page 268 - HINTS for DWELLINGS, consisting of original Designs for Cottages, Farm-Houses, Villas, &c. plain and ornamental ; with Plans to each, in which strict Attention is paid to unite Convenience and Elegance with Economy; including some Designs for Town-Houses.
Page 271 - The STUDENT'S INSTRUCTOR in drawing and working the Five Orders of Architecture ; fully explaining the best Methods of striking regular and quirked Mouldings, for diminishing and glueing of Columns and Capitals, for finding the true Diameter of an Order to any given height, for striking the Ionic Volute circular and elliptical, with finished Examples, on a large Scale of the Orders, their Planceers, &c. and some Designs for Door Cases.
Page 384 - The Rudiments of Practical Perspective ; in which the Representation of Objects is described by two easy Methods, one depending on the Plan of the Object, the other on its Dimensions and Position; each Method being entirely free from the usual Complication of Lines, and from the Difficulties arising from remote vanishing Points.
Page 384 - WITH ILLUSTRATIONS, EXPERIMENTAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND PRACTICAL : TO WHICH ARE ADDED, OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE OF HEAT; AND VARIOUS TABLES USEFUL IN THE APPLICATION OF HEAT; With Nine Plates and several Wood-cuts.

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