A Dictionary of Architecture and Building: Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive, Volume 1Macmillan, 1901 - Architects |
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Page 311 - De la distribution des maisons de plaisance et de la décoration des édifices en général...
Page 747 - till standing), the church and county courthouse in Lenox (about 1814, still standing). GC Gardner in Am. Architect, Vol. XLVII., p. 40. DAMP COURSE. A course or layer of impervious material in a wall or floor to prevent the ingress of moisture from the ground or lower courses. It extends entirely through the wall, and perhaps upward on the outer face or in the thickness of the wall. It may be of lead, asphalt, or of compact and non-porous stone. DAMPER. A valve or diaphragm to check or control the...
Page 11 - It may also be defined as the sine of the angle of incidence divided by the sine of the angle of refraction, as light passes from air into the substance.
Page 23 - The walls should not be tied together, or if that be necessary, the bolts should be insulated from the walls by means of inelastic washers. The greatest difficulty is in the avoidance of communication through the floor; and this is generally the cause of the failures in attempts at insulation that are occasionally reported. The often repeated statement that a copy of a standard auditorium does not necessarily possess its good acoustical qualities is not justified, and invests the subject with an...
Page 119 - An arch in which the impost on one side is higher than that on the other. rampant vault A continuous wagon vault, or a cradle vault, whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane, such as a vault supporting or forming the ceiling of a stairway.
Page 823 - house drain" is applied to that part of the main horizontal drain and its branches inside the walls of the building, vault or area, and extending to and connecting with the house sewer.
Page 307 - A story, or important exterior horizontal division, having no windows nor other openings of consequence ; especially, in mediaeval church architecture, a triforium assumed to be without exterior windows ; as opposed to clerestory, which lighted the interior by means of windows above the roof of the triforium. BLISTER. A defect in the form of a slight projection of a surface detached from the body of the material, caused in manufacturing or by weather or other agencies, as the protuberance sometimes...
Page 327 - These also form running bonds as shown at the face of the wall. made to adhere more or less closely; hence, a piece or pieces used for that purpose. Specifically : — A. In carpentry, (1) the securing or framing of two or more timbers together by means of a third crossing them ; (2) the timbers, considered collectively, placed in or on the walls, and which act to stiffen and bind the parts of a building, as wall plates, templets.
Page 729 - CURTAIL. In stair building, the outward curving portion of the hand rail and of the outer end of the lower step or steps of a flight ; possibly an abbreviation of curved tail. An ample curtail to the lowest two or three steps not only enhances their appearance, but offers an easier start to persons approaching from the side. A plain semicircular curtail to the lowest step is called a bull nose.
Page 629 - COCHLEATE, COCHLEATED. Spirally or helically twisted, like a snail shell ; as, a cochleary stair. COCK. A mechanical device for controlling the flow of water or other liquid, either at any point in the line of pipe (stop cock), or at an outlet end of a pipe line, in combination with a nozzle or discharge spout at a plumbing fixture (bibb cock, faucet). Cocks are designated by the fixture for which they are intended (as a basin or bath cock); by the service which they are intended to render; by their...