Title & Author:

The technology of historic American buildings : studies of the materials, craft processes, and the mechanization of building construction / H. Ward Jandl, editor.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Foundation for Preservation Technology for the Association for Preservation Technology, [1983]

Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The historic development of hand forged iron builders' hardware / Donald Streeter -- Chicago balloon frame : the evolution during the 19th century of George W. Snow's system for erecting light frame buildings from dimension lumber and machine-made nails / Paul E. Sprague -- Inventing the I-beam : Richard Turner, Cooper & Hewitt and others / Charles E. Peterson -- Cast iron in American architecture : a synoptic view / Antoinette J. Lee -- The manufacture and use of architectural terra cotta in the United States / Robert C. Mack -- Decorative metal roofing in the United States / Mary B. Dierickx -- Economical painting : the tools and techniques used in exterior painting in the 19th century / Pamela W. Hawkes.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

092476074
0092476074

Subject:

Historic buildings United States.
Building.
Building materials.
Building materials Conservation and restoration.
Historic buildings Conservation and restoration United States.
Construction Materials
Construction Matériaux Conservation et restauration.
Monuments historiques Conservation et restauration États-Unis.
Construction Matériaux.
Construction.
constructions (sculpture)
building materials.
Historic buildings Conservation and restoration
Historic buildings
United States

Added entries:

Jandl, H. Ward, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 68533
Call No.: ID:86-B10293
Status: Available