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Building: timber and brick roofing details. Etching by [W. A. B.] 1850, after S. H. Brooks.
Date: 1850Reference: 44251i- Pictures
Building: section through a church, showing timber roofing and interior fittings. Etching by H. Adlard, 1849, after S. H. Brooks.
Date: 1850Reference: 44274i- Books
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The art of practical measuring easily perform'd, by a two foot rule, which slides to a foot. On which is the best measure of round timber the common way. Also, the true Measure of Round, Square, or other Timber or Stone, Board, Glass, Paving, Painting, Wainscot, &c. Gauging of Cask, and Gauging and Inching of Tuns. Containing brief instructions in decimal arithmetick. The best way of using the Logarithms according to Mr. Townley. The Use of a new Diagonal Scale, of 100 parts in a quarter of an Inch, applied to Gunter's Chain. And lastly, some useful directions in dialling, not hitherto Published. By H. C. gent.
Coggeshall, Henry, 1623-1690.Date: 1706- Pictures
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Building: iron supports for rotten timber. Engraving by W. Kelsall after A. Ainger.
Ainger, Alfred, 1797 or 1798-1859.Reference: 44309i- Books
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Manoeuvres, or practical observations on the art of war: containing, Vol. I. 1. The manual exercise. 2. An essay on the command of small detachments. 3. A new system of fortification, by making use of Standing Timber, &c. And General Wolfe's instructions to young officers. Vol. II. 1. Manouvres for a battalion of infantry. 2. Manouvres for a battalion, and brigade of infantry. 3. Manouvres in general, with a short Table, containing above two hundred and forty different Movements. With 62 copper-plates. By Major William Young.
[Young, William, Major (not 1725?-1788)].Date: [1776?]- Books
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The principles of mechanics. Explaining and demonstrating the general laws of motion, the laws of gravity, motion of descending bodies, projectiles, mechanic powers, Pendulums, Centers of Gravity, &c. Strength and Stress of Timber, Hydrostatics, and Construction of Machines. A Work very necessary to be known, by all Gentlemen, and Others, that desire to have an Insight into the Works of Nature and Art. And extremely useful to all Sorts of Artificers; particularly to Architects, Engineers, Shipwrights, Millwrights, Watchmakers, &c. or any that work in a Mechanical Way.
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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The art of practical measuring, by the sliding rule: Shewing how to measure Round, Square, or other Timber, Stone, Board, Glass, Paving, Painting, and Wainscot. Also Gauging; with Instructions in Decimals, Mr Townley's Method of the Logarithms, and the Use of the Diagonal Scale applied to Gunter's Chain. By Henry Coggeshall, gent. Whereto is added, in a short method, the use of Scamozzi's lines for finding the lengths and angles of hips, rafters, &c. at any pitch, in Square, Bevelling, or Tapering Frames. By John Ham.
Coggeshall, Henry, 1623-1690.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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The timber-Tree improved; or, the best practical methods of improving different lands with proper timber, and Those Fruit-Trees whose Woods make the most profitable Returns to their Owners: According to the Newest Inventions, by the Plough, Harrow, and other Methods most approved of. By William Ellis, Of Little Gaddesden, near Hemstead in Hertfordshire.
Ellis, William, approximately 1700-1758.Date: 1738- Books
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The concise practical measurer: or, a plain guide to gentlemen and builders. Describing the certain true methods of measuring and computing the value of the several performances of bricklayers, carpenters, Joyners, Plaisterers, Masons, Painters, Plumbers, Glaziers, and Paviors. The Growth, Nature and Use of Timber, viz. Of the Oak, Elm, Ash, Beech, Walnut-Tree, Poplar, Alder-Tree, Fir, Norway-Oak, Horn-Beam, Lime, Box, Hazell, and Maple. Also, The Form of a Bricklayer's and Carpenter's Bill of Measurement; the Manner of Digging Foundations, and the Method of Valuing Ground and Houses. The second edition. By Tho. Miles, Surveyor.
Miles, Tho. (Thomas).Date: [1740]- Pictures
A timber house, built by Anders Zorn, near Stockholm. Photograph R. Grape, ca.1910.
Date: [approximetly 1910]Reference: 529907iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
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The carpenter and joiner's assistant; containing practical rules for making all kinds of joints, and various methods of hingeing them together; For Hanging Of AtDoors ON Straight OR Circular Plans; For fitting up Windows and Shutters to answer various Purposes, With Rules For Hanging Them: For the Construction of Floors, Partitions, Soffits, Groins, Arches for Masonny; for constructing Roofs in the best Manner from a given Quantity of Timber: For placing of Bond Timbers, with various Methods for adjusting Raking Pediments, enlarging and diminishing of Mouldings; taking Dimensions for Joinery, and for setting out Shop Fronts. With a new scheme for constructing stairs and hand-rails, and for Stairs having a Conical Well-Hole, &c. &c. To Which Are Added, Examples Of AtVarious Roofs Exectued, With The Scantlings, From Actual Measurements. With Rules for Mortices and Tenons, and for fixing Iron Straps, &c. Also Extracts from M. Belidor, M. du Hamel, M. de Buffon, &c. On the Strength Of AtTimber, with Practical Observations. Illustrated with seventy-nine plates, and copious explanations. By Peter Nicholson, Author Of At The Carpenter's New Guide, &c.
Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844.Date: 1797- Books
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Heart of Oak, the British bulwark. Shewing, I. Reasons for paying greater attention to the propagation of Oak. Timber than has hitherto been manifested. II. The insufficiency of the present laws to prevent the want or scarcity of that commodity. III. The testimony of some of the most eminent timber merchants, shipwrights, &c. proving not only the great decrease, but the proportionate decrease for thirty or forty years last past, of the full grown timber fit for the navy or merchants service, in the principal timber counties throughout the Kingdom. IV. That the neglect of planting, if not immediately remedied, will be the ruin of this Kingdom. V. The author's opinion what methods would be most effectual to prevent this calamity. Humbly offered to His Majesty and the Parliament, as well as to all proprietors of land in Great-Britain. By Roger Fisher, shipwright of Liverpool.
Fisher, Roger, shipwright.Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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A treatise of husbandry on the improvement of dry and barren lands. Shewing, I. The many Advantages which would arise to the Nation in general, by destroying of Warrens, and converting the Lands into Tillage, Pasture, &c. II. Pointing out new and cheap Methods to make growing Fences upon the most Barren Soils, and how to Till and Manure the same at a low Expence. III. How to prepare the Land, and Raise upon it Various Sorts of Plants, to produce both Poles and Timber. By Thomas Hitt, Author of a Treatise on Fruit-Trees.
Hitt, Thomas, -1770?.Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- Books
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Proceedings in the bill, intituled An Act for the better Preservation of Timber in the New Forest, in the County of Southampton; and for ascertaining the Boundaries of the said Forest, and of the Lands of the Crown within the same. Comprising the whole of The Debates in both Houses of Parliament, and the speeches of Mr. W. Scott, for himself, and Mr. Warren, Counsel for the Petitioners, against the bill. With an appendix, Containing Heads of a Bill brought into Parliament in the year 1792 for a similar purpose, and the Debates thereon.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1800- Books
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A treatise of husbandry on the improvement of dry and barren lands. Shewing, I. The many Advantages which would arise to the Nation in general, by destroying of Warrens, and converting the Lands into Tillage, Pasture, &c. II. Pointing out New and Cheap Methods to make growing Fences upon the most Barren Soils, and how to Till and Manure the same at a low Expence. III. How to prepare the Land, and Raise upon it Various Sorts of Plants, to produce both Poles and Timber. By Thomas Hitt, author of a Treatise on fruit-trees.
Hitt, Thomas, -1770?.Date: 1760- Books
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The principles of mechanics. Explaining and demonstrating the general laws of motion, The Laws of Gravity, Motion of Descending Bodies, Projectiles, Mechanic Powers, Pendulums, Centres of Gravity, &c. Strength and Stress of Timber, Hydrostatics, and Construction of Machines. A work very necessary to be known by all gentlemen and others that desire to have an Insight into the Works of Nature and Art, and extremely useful to all sorts of artificers; Particularly To Architects, Engineers, Shipwrights, Millwrights, Watch-Makers, &c. or any that work in a Mechanical Way.
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: M.DCC. [1800]- Books
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The description and use of the carpenter's-rule: together with the use of the line of numbers commonly call'd Gunter's-Line. Applyed to the measuring of all superficies and solids, as Board, Glass, Plaistering, Wainscot, Tyling, Paving, Flooring &c. Timber, Stone, Square or Round, Gauging of Vessels, &c. Also military orders, simple and compound interest, and Tables of Reduction, with the way of working by Arithmetick, in the most of them. Together with the use of the glasiers and Mr. White's sliding rules. Rendered plain and easie for ordinary Capacities. By John Brown.
Brown, John, Philomath.Date: MDCCIV. [1704]- Books
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The art of practical measuring easily perform'd, by a two foot rule, which slides to a foot; on which is the best measure of round timber the common way. Also The true Measure of round, square, or other Timber or Stone, Board, Glass, Paving, Painting, Wainscot, &c. Gauging of Cask, and gauging and inching of Tuns. Containing brief instructions in decimal arithmetick. The best way of using the Logarithms according to Mr. Townley. The Use of a new diagonal Scale, of 100 Parts in a quarter of an Inch, applied to Gunter's Chain. And lastly, some useful directions in dialling, not hitherto published. The third edition corrected and amended by Henry Coggeshall, gent.
Coggeshall, Henry, 1623-1690.Date: 1722- Books
On naval timber and arboriculture : with critical notes on authors who have recently treated the subject of planting / by Patrick Matthew.
Matthew, Patrick, 1790-1874.Date: 1831- Pictures
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Woodmen driving an ox-cart carrying baulks of timber. Etching by F. Bracquemond after A. DuBuisson.
Dubuisson, Alexandre, 1805-1870.Date: 1857Reference: 485638i- Pictures
Building: iron and timber centering for arch building. Engraving by W. Kelsall after A. Ainger.
Ainger, Alfred, 1797 or 1798-1859.Reference: 44456i- Pictures
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Building: section through a theatre, half cutaway, showing timber roofing and interior fittings. Etching by H. Adlard, 1849, after S. H. Brooks.
Date: 1850Reference: 44292i- Books
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The farmer's letters to the people of England: containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman, on various subjects of great Importance: Particularly The Exportation of Corn. The Balance of Agriculture and Manufactures. The present State of Husbandry. The Circumstances attending large and small Farms The present state of the Poor. The Prices of Provisions. The Proceedings of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. The Importance of Timber and Planting. Emigrations to the Colonies. The Means of promoting the Agriculture and Population of Great-Britain, &c. To which are added, Sylv?: or, occasional tracts on husbandry and rural oeconomics.
Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.Date: M,DCC,LXVIII. [1768]- Books
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The principles of mechanics. Explaining and demonstrating the general laws of motion, the laws of gravity, motion of descending bodies, projectiles, mechanic powers, Pendulums, Centers of Gravity, &c. Strength and Stress of Timber, Hydrostatics, and Construction of Machines. A Work very necessary to be known, by all Gentlemen, and Others, that desire to have an Insight into the Works of Nature and Art. And extremely useful to all Sorts of Artificers; particularly to Architects, Engineers, Shipwrights, Millwrights, Watchmakers, &c. or any that Work in a Mechanical Way. The third edition, corrected. Illustrated with forty-three copper-plates.
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Practical husbandry; or, the art of farming, with a certainty of gain: as practised by judicious farmers in this country. The Result of Experience and Long Observation. By Dr. John Trusler, of Cobham, Surry. In this Work is contained all the Knowledge necessary in the plain Business of Farming, unincumbered with Theory, Speculation, or Experimental Enquiry; also, a Number of Estimates of the Expences and Profits of different Crops in the common Way, taken from Minutes kept; and a Variety of useful Remarks, not to be met with in any Books of Agriculture. Together with Directions for Measuring Timber.
Trusler, John, 1735-1820.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]