1847 CARPENTRY Tredgold Principles English Architecture

1847 CARPENTRY Tredgold Principles English Architecture Illustrated Bridges

Thomas Tredgold was an English civil engineer in the early 19th-century who worked toward developing railroad construction methods. However, his most important work was his ‘Elementary Principles of Carpentry’ – a treatise on the construction of homes, floors and roofs, and bridges.

According to Singer, this work discussed

“the essential theory developed by the French engineers and savants of the 18th-century, read by many practicing engineers.”

This 1847 American edition of Tredgold’s ‘Carpentry’ is filled with impressive illustrations of architectural designs throughout.

Item number: #7236

Price: $350

TREDGOLD, Thomas

Elementary principles of carpentry ; a treatise on the pressure and equilibrium of timber framing, the resistance of timber, and the construction of floors, roofs, centres, bridges, &c., with practical rules and examples. To which is added an essay on the nature and properties of timber, including the methods of seasoning, and the causes and prevention of decay, with descriptions of the kinds of wood used in building. Also numerous tables of the scantlings of timber ... the specific gravities of materials, &c. Illustrated by twenty-two engravings, and several wood cuts.

Philadelphia: Jesper Harding, 1847. Second American edition.

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[xviii], 247

References: Singer, History of Technology IV, 44;

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Size: ~11in X 9in (28cm x 22.5cm)

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Condition Report: Excellent.