Stair Builders' Guide (1914)
Book details
- Title
- Stair Builders' Guide (1914)
- Author
- Mason Williams Published David Williams
- Publication year listed
- 1914
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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- Free online reader; no registration required
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About this book
Stair Builders' Guide (1914)
Author: Williams, Morris
Year: 1914
Stair Builders' Guide: A Treatise on the Construction of Straight Flight, Platform, Cylindrical and Elliptical Stairs, Explaining the Theory and Practice so the Average Building Mechanic May Understand It, With Examples of Work Ranging from the Simplest to the Most Complex Forms , by Mason Williams. Published David Williams Company (New York), 1914. Contents include Straight flight and platform stairways Sections of prisms Tangents Face molds Wreath rail bevels Arrangement of risers in and around cylinder Straight flight of stairs Flight with winders at the bottom Platform and newel stairway Construction of a platform stairway with stretchout curve at the bottom A stairway containing stretchout curve at the bottom and a quarter turn curve at top landing Method of constructing a scroll wreath Second method of constructing a scroll wreath Third method of constructing a scroll wreath A wreath rail over a 12-inch cylinder containing eight winders A wreath over a cylinder adjoining a level landing Wreath for stairway containing a curve more than a quadrant at the starting and and a quadrant curve at the intersection of two flights A wreath in sections over a 13 1/2 inch quadrant A wreat