Title & Author:

The Development of timber as a structural material / edited by David T. Yeomans.

Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©1999.

Description:

xlii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Medieval Timber Structures. 1. The cruck-built barn of Leigh Court, Worcestershire, England / F.W.B. Charles and Walter Horn. 2. The grammar of carpentry / Richard Harris. 3. The timber roofs of York Minster / J. Quentin Hughes. 4. Jettying and floor-framing in medieval Essex / Cecil A. Hewett. 5. Where roof meets wall: structural innovations and hammer-beam antecedants, 1150-1250 / Lynn T. Courtenay. 6. The Westminster Hall roof: a historiographic and structural study / Lynn T. Courtenay and R. Mark. 7. Westminster Hall roof / Jacques Heyman -- The Early Modern Period. 8. Early carpenters' manuals, 1592-1820 / David T. Yeomans. 9. The strength testing of timber during the 17th and 18th centuries / L.G. Booth.

Summary:

Woodworking has been one of the most important technologies from the earliest times as an integral part of most construction processes. This book collects together papers representing the full range of scholarship in this area.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0860787575
9780860787570

Subject:

Wood Utilization.
Building, Wooden History.
Civil engineering History.
Bois Utilisation.
Construction en bois Histoire.
Génie civil Histoire.
Building, Wooden
Civil engineering
Dach
Holzbau
Architektur
Bauholz
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Hout.
Bouwmaterialen.
Houtconstructies.
Wood Utilization History.
Building materials History.
Civil engineering Materials.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Yeomans, David T.
Studies in the history of civil engineering ; v. 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 208024
Call No.: TA419 .D4 1999
Status: Available