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Architecture: various domes. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
Date: 2 January 1848Reference: 44275i- Pictures
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Building: two floor plans, showing the layout of joists, and details (below). Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
Date: 2 January 1848Reference: 44335i- Pictures
Architecture: setting out diagrams for stone arches, and a catenary. Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte?].
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 44138i- Pictures
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Architecture: the roof trusses of three chapels compared. Engraving by A. Dick, 1847, after M. A. Nicholson.
Nicholson, Michael Angelo, approximately 1796-1841.Date: 2 January 1848Reference: 44248i- Books
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The practical builder, or workman's general assistant: shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building, as The Use of the Tramel for Groins, Angle-Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on Flewing James, the preparing and making their Soffits. Rules of Carpentry; To find the Length and Backing of Hips, strait or curved; Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. - Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders, in their general and particular Parts, Gluing of Columns, Stair-Cases with their ramp and twist Rails, fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Ceilings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. in the newest Taste. With plans and elevations of gentlemans and farm-houses, yards, barns, &c. By William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Pictures
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Engineering: a wide-span wooden truss-beam roof. Engraving by J. Davis after R. Tredgold, 1820.
Tredgold, R., active 1820.Date: 1 June 1820Reference: 44212i- Books
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The practical builder, or workman's general assistant; shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building; The Use of the Tramel for Groins, Angle-Brackets, Niches, &c. Semi-Circular Arches on Flewing Jambs, the Preparing and Making their Soffits. Rules of carpentry; To find the Length and Backing of Hips, Straight or Curved. -- Trusses for Roofs, Domes, &c. -- Trussing of Girders, Sections of Floors, &c. The Proportion of the Five Orders, in their General and Particular Parts. -- Glewing of Columns, Stair-Cases with their Ramp and Twist Rails; Fixing the Carriages, Newels, &c. Frontispieces, Chimney-Pieces, Cielings, Cornices, Architraves, &c. in the Newest Taste. -- With Plans and Elevations of Gentlemens' and Farm-Houses, Yards, Barns, &c. A new edition, revised and corrected by the author William Pain, Architect and Joiner. Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
House maintenance for the intelligent owner / by Eric Bird ; with fifty illustrations.
Bird, Eric Leslie, 1894-Date: 1957- Pictures
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The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: east side covered in scaffolding during construction by Trollope & Colls, 1931. Photograph.
Date: 1931Reference: 29084i- Pictures
Building: iron and timber centering for arch building. Engraving by W. Kelsall after A. Ainger.
Ainger, Alfred, 1797 or 1798-1859.Reference: 44456i- Journals
BRE news / Building Research Establishment.
Date: 1972-1984]- Books
The history of building regulation in London, 1189-1972 : with an account of the District Surveyors' Association / by C.C. Knowles and P.H. Pitt.
Knowles, C. C. (Clifford Cyril)Date: 1972- Pictures
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Construction work in front of Bridewell prison and the jail governors house, Edinburgh, Scotland. Steel engraving by W. Tombleson, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.
SShepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)Date: 25 April 1829Reference: 17012i- Pictures
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Building: two floor plans, showing the layout of joists, and details (below). Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
Date: 2 January 1848Reference: 44311i- Pictures
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A multiple-way joint of timber and iron for barrack building. Engraving by G. Aikman after W. Ferrier.
Ferrier, Walter.Reference: 44525i- Pictures
Carpentry: various types of timber house frame. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Reference: 40978i- Pictures
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Architecture: various ways of cutting materials to cover a roof. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
Date: 2 January 1848Reference: 44268i- Pictures
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Building: two floor plans, showing the layout of joists, and details (below). Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
Date: 2 January 1848Reference: 44334i- Books
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The practical house carpenter; or, youth's instructor: containing a great variety of useful designs in carpentry and architecture; As Centering for Groins, Niches, &c. Examples for Roofs, Sky-Lights, &c. The Five Orders laid down by a New Scale. Mouldings, &c. at large, with their Enrichments. Plans, Elevations and Sections of Houses for Town and Country, Lodges, Hot-Houses, Green-Houses, Stables, &c. Design for a Church, with Plan, Elevation, and two Sections; an Altar-Piece, and Pulpit. Designs for Chimney-Pieces, Shop-Fronts, Door-Cases. Section of a Dining-Room and Library. Variety of Stair-Cases, with many other important Articles, and useful Embellishments. To which is added, A list of prices for materials and labour, labour only, and day prices. The whole illustrated, and made perfectly easy, by 148 copper plates, With Explanations to each, By William Pain, Author of the Practical Builder, and British Palladio.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Pictures
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Building: plan, elevation, and diagrams of an arch. Etching, 1850, after S. H. Brooks.
Date: 1850Reference: 44294i- Books
Construction and equipment of the home.
American Public Health Association. Committee on the Hygiene of Housing.Date: 1951- Pictures
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Architecture: tools, derricks, and windlasses. Engraving by Bénard after Lucotte.
Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 44162i- Books
Mechanical equipment of buildings : a reference book for engineers, architects and contractors / by Louis Allen Harding and Arthur Cutts Willard.
Harding, Louis Allen.Date: 1929-- Pictures
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Taps and dies for cutting screw threads, and a water-tight window: cross-sections, and details. Engraving by J. Cleghorn after C. Varley.
Varley, Cornelius, 1781-1873.Reference: 41239i- Pictures
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Three pictures from a missionary enterprise on the Upper Zambesia: an African chief smoking; a missionary's wife quarters; Africans building a church. Wood-engravings.
Reference: 25674i