The Contractors' and Builders' HandbookDavid Williams Company, 1911 - 378 Seiten |
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The Contractors and Builders' Handbook (Classic Reprint) William Arthur Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
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66 Paid allowed amount architect architect's scale average bank beams better bill bill of material bond brick brickwork builder building carpenters cast iron cent CHAPTER Chicago column companies contract contractor cost course cubic feet cubic foot danger dead load diameter engineer estimate Expanded Metal extra factors of safety figures finished fire floor girder give given I-beams inches thick joists keep kind labor lien live load lump sum masonry material Metal in Inches method Metric System mortar mortgage ordinary owner payment pier plans plaster Portland cement pounds profit reinforced concrete risk roof safe side slab sometimes span specifications square feet square foot square inches steel stone story structure subcontractors things tons tractor trade trouble usually wages walls weight yards
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Seite 311 - We are always in these days endeavouring to separate the two; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen, in the best sense.
Seite 349 - APPROXIMATE EQUIVALENTS. A metre is about a yard; a kilo is about 2 pounds; a litre is- about a quart; a centimetre is about...
Seite 311 - Booklearning does not make five per cent of that mass of common sense that "runs" the world, transacts its business, secures its progress, trebles its power over Nature, works out in the long run a rough average justice, wears away the world's restraints, and lifts off its burdens. The ideal Yankee, who "has more brains in his hand than others have in their skulls...
Seite 338 - Is not this great Babylon, that I have built by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
Seite 156 - Vitae, dry, 83 Lime, quick, ground, loose, or in small lumps, 53 " " " " thoroughly shaken, 75 " " " " per struck bushel (66) Limestones and Marbles 168 " " " loose, in irregular fragments, .... 96 Magnesium ^ 109 Mahogany, Spanish, dry 53 " Honduras, dry, ......... 35 Maple, dry, 49 Marbles, see Limestones.
Seite 311 - ... of the inventions that enable France to double the world's sunshine, and make Old and New England the workshops of the world, did not come from colleges or from minds trained in the schools of science, but struggled up, forcing their way against giant obstacles, from the irrepressible instinct of untrained natural power. Her workshops, not her colleges, made England, for a while, the mistress of the world ; and the hardest job her workman had was to make Oxford willing he should work his wonders.
Seite 182 - Rock, the hardest in thick layers, in native bed, 200 .... Rock, equal to best ashlar masonry, 25 30 Rock, equal to best brick masonry, 15 20 Rock, equal to poor brick masonry, 5 10 Clay...
Seite 143 - Multiply the square of the diameter in inches by the length in feet, and that product by 2.6.
Seite 336 - ... an undue appreciation of ourselves, an exaggerated estimate of our achievements, of our inventions, of our contributions to popular comfort, and of our place, in fact, in the great procession of the ages. We seem to imagine that whether knowledge will die with us or not, it certainly began with us. We have a pitying estimate, a tender pity, for the narrowness, ignorance, and darkness of the bygone ages.
Seite 128 - ... said orange, together with all its rind, skin, juice, pulp, and pips, and all right and advantage therein, with full power to bite, cut, suck, and otherwise eat the same...