OR, The Science and Art of Framing. ON A NEW AND IMPROVED SYSTEM. WITH SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS FOR BUILDING BALLOON FRAMES, BARN FRAMES, MILL FRAMES, WARE- COMPRISING ALSO A SYSTEM OF BRIDGE BUILDING; WITH BILLS, ESTIMATES OF COST, AND VALUABLE TABLES. ILLUSTRATED BY Thirty-eight Plates and near Two Hundred Figures. BY WILLIAM E. BELL, ARCHITECT AND PRACTICAL BUILDER. PHILADELPHIA: JAMES CHALLEN & SON, No. 25 SOUTH SIXTH STREET. J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.-LINDSAY & BLAKISTON......NEW YORK: SHELDON, CINCINNATI: RICKEY, MALLORY & CO......CHICAGO: S. C. GRIGGS & CO. 1859. HARVARD UNIVERSITY JUN 20 1917 TRANSFERRED TO Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by WILLIAM E. BELL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY GEORGE CHARLES, THE Author takes great pleasure in acknowledging the eminent services rendered him in the literary and scientific portions of this work, by E. N. JENCKS, A. M., Professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; and the Public cannot fail to appreciate the value of his labors in these departments. The inception of the work, its original designs, and the entire system, are mine. Whatever is found in it purely literary and scientific, I cheerfully attribute to his assistance. And believing that the work will supply a pressing want, and will be useful both to those who are devoted to the Mechanic Arts and to Amateurs who have felt the necessity of a faithful guide in house-building and other structures, especially in new settlements, I can confidently commend it tc them as supplying this deficiency. WILLIAM E. BELL. Ottawa, Ill., Jan. 1st, 1858. Bevels of Rafters.......... Bevels of upper joints and gable-end studding.. Bevels of Braces........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... BALLOON FRAMES. 43 43 44 45 45 47 Trussed partitions...... |