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  the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor _Printed on Fine Quality Book Paper


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id: 20763
author: Zerbe, James Slough
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  edges of the mortises or tenons, so that the cutting line may readily be cutting edge is square and at the right working angle. In Fig. 14, which shows the teeth of a cross-cut saw, the THE GAGE.--The illustration (Fig. 19) shows one of the most useful tools him to work at the task of cutting off a board accurately on a line. The illustration (Fig. 31) shows a board marked with the cross lines (B) TOOLS USED.--The back saw is used for cutting the tenon, and the end of board use the gage to mark off a half-inch slice, and then cut away the FLAT EFFECTS.--If the board is flat it may be shaded, as shown in Fig. 131, in which the lines are all of the same thickness, and are spaced Fig. 145, the angle formed at the center by the lines (B, E) is

title:
  Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations


id: 28255
title: Shelters, Shacks and Shanties
author: Beard, Daniel Carter
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  shelter (Fig. 13), or lay a number of poles as shown in the left-hand by building his tree-house on the _B_ sills (Fig. 94) and making them house and Fig. 97 shows a thatch-roofed cottage built among the top built of small logs on a platform, as shown by Fig. 111, and the bottom of log and the other end on the ground, as shown in Fig. 131, and then lads may use small poles in place of logs with which to build the camp and A one-room log cabin with double bunks at one end makes a good camp (Fig. 185) with room for two or four sleepers according to the width of the bunk your cabin as you would a log house, notching only the small ends of the shown above (_G_, Fig. 236); but when the ends of the side logs of the


id: 17137
author: Godfrey, Edward
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  The fourth point concerns shear in steel rods embedded in concrete. around a reinforcing rod in a concrete beam, and a correct comparison of methods of design in steel and reinforced concrete, as they are commonly the beam but concrete and the tension rod between the two shear members. a reinforced concrete beam as carrying the shear from stirrup to steel rods in a plain concrete column add greatly to the strength of the [Footnote B: "Stresses in Reinforced Concrete Beams," _Journal_, Am. Soc. "Of course a reinforcing rod in a concrete beam receives its stress "Of course a reinforcing rod in a concrete beam receives its stress _Eighth Point._--Bars in the bottom of a reinforced concrete beam are steel reinforcing rods of a concrete beam; but he demurs when the author "A reinforcing rod in a concrete beam receives its stress by "A reinforcing rod in a concrete beam receives its stress by

title:
  Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design American Society of Civil Engineers, Transactions, Paper No. 1169, Volume LXX, Dec. 1910


id: 26440
title: Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction
author: Braidwood, James
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  ENGINES, AND WATER SUPPLY--FIRE BRIGADES. following year published his work "On the Construction of Fire-Engines strong-armed men who worked the engines, secured every co-operation general arrangement, than to allow the firemen of each engine to work When the hose is attached and the engine filled with water, the man Men on duty not at the engine-stations are allowed one hour for The men for duty individually assemble at the principal engine-house He is careful to place the engines in such a manner that the men who branch-pipe at the farther extremity of the last length.[H] While Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 are attaching the hose to the engine, No. 5 opens the The head enginemen and firemen shall reside as near the engine-house of the committee on fire-engines; and the men shall attend to the The engines must be at all times in good working order, and the


id: 37928
author: Merriman, Owen
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  burner (in the sense of developing more light for the gas consumed) in producing the flame of the union-jet burner, the two streams of gas, improved form, the flames produced by the two burners are practically pressure at which the gas issues from the burner is altogether an flame just sufficient air to completely consume the quantity of gas the pressure at which gas issues from various burners. be obtained (with flat-flame burners) by causing the gas to issue into [Sidenote: Pressure of gas with the Brönner burner.] burners, of the illuminating power obtainable from the gas, the Argand air supplied to the flame is determined by the pressure of the gas; pressure of the gas within the burner that it may issue with little or gas to issue from the burner at the minimum of pressure, it must be appeared relating to gas lighting,[11] we find the Argand burner construction of the gas-burner.

title:
  Gas Burners Old and New A historical and descriptive treatise on the progress of invention in gas lighting, embracing an account of the theory of luminous combustion


id: 36936
title: Lectures on Ventilation Being a Course Delivered in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
author: Leeds, Lewis W.
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  open windows--Fire not objectionable--A small room ventilated is better than a large room not ventilated--Illustration--Fresh certificates do not state "killed by foul air"--Open fire-places large crowded rooms--Circulating warmed air best--Erroneous views is much more wholesome than a large air-tight room freezing cold. the air would be a little nearer pure at night than in the day-time. Heat is the great moving power of air. does not occur to the air of a room heated by the open fire. The air in a room heated by an open fire can scarcely become stagnant, open_ to carry off the cold, heavy foul air from the floor--a stove Thus a large flow of pure fresh warm air might be forces all the cold air out, warming and ventilating the whole room. ventilation, illustrating clearly the known quantity of pure, fresh air the fresh air directly into the room, and at times, too, when it is even


id: 48360
author: Daniels, Ara Marcus
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  The draft depends entirely upon the chimney flue. Draft in a chimney flue is caused by the difference in weight between A fireplace flue, if straight, should be lined from the throat register should be connected with the chimney flue built for the heating chimney for a range or stove the fireplace flue should be closed tight inches of area for the chimney flue to every square foot of fireplace chimney and wasted, but with a throat damper open only 1 or 2 inches a the room outside air heated in passing through a metal flue on which the [Illustration: Fig. 19.--Simple form of warm-air flue for outside flue up the back of the fireplace heats the air to a higher temperature The fire, on top of the metal flue, heats the air air entering from outside at AE is heated as it passes through the flue

title:
  Chimneys & Fireplaces They Contribute to the Health Comfort and Happiness of the Farm Family - How to Build Them


id: 48378
title: Fireplaces and Chimneys - Farmers'' Bulletin 1889
author: Senner, Arthur H. (Arthur Henry)
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  [Illustration: Figure 1.--A properly designed and well-built chimney that flues may be caused by building the chimney too near trees (fig. Table 1.--_Sizes of flue linings and heights of chimneys recommended for [Illustration: Figure 5.--Two pleasingly designed fireplace chimneys that Although, to save expense, chimneys are built without flue lining, those [C] Round flue lining, 6 to 24 inches in diameter, is 2 feet long; that by building the exposed upper section of a chimney with 8-inch walls. the chimney wall to the flue should be lined with fire-clay, or metal except when 8 inches of masonry is used outside flue lining, in which chimneys 18 inches to 2 feet away from the gable ends of the house (fig. [Illustration: Figure 31.--This 36-inch-wide fireplace does not seem too determining the size of fireplace opening for an existing flue. Table 4.--_Sizes of fireplace flue linings_[D] 20 feet of 13by 13-inch flue lining.


id: 50575
author: Holmes, F. M. (Frederic Morell)
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  Fire-Escapes, Chemical Extinctors, Water-Towers, and the great "The new escape''s close behind!" cried one of the men, as the engine rang into Great Marlborough Street fire-station, and the horsed escape five minutes in the biggest engine of the London Brigade, this result steam fire-engines were at work at the great Tooley Street fire. pressure of water only, without the use of engines, is very much After the conflagration, engines were employed in pumping water out of engines (55 being worked by steam), 155 fire-escapes, and other ladders, staff of 80 men of the London Fire-Engine Establishment of 1832. fire-escapes and police-ladders, 59 land steam fire-engines, 57 six-inch present escapes are great improvements on the old forms, and two men can Brigade; but, while London firemen make use of the escape as a point of A water-tower is sometimes placed with an engine or a hook-and-ladder improvements and great usefulness of the various engines and appliances

title:
  Firemen and Their Exploits With some account of the rise and development of fire-brigades, of various appliances for saving life at fires and extinguishing the flames.


id: 55684
title: Firebrands
author: Davis, George Moses
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  Children are allowed to burn dry leaves in the fall, and their clothing the house; Careless Joe pours hot ashes into a wooden box; or boys Some boys who were playing in the street came running up to the house "I''ll keep the boy so busy that he won''t have any time to forget," said then he seemed to care so little that the good old man began to think meant, and things went a little better for a day or two; but the boy It was May Day, and all the children who went to school in the little Father said that boys couldn''t half enjoy good news with dirty hands good little rats; but like all boys and girls they sometimes thought flame lighted another match, and a little fire was soon burning merrily. Did I ever tell you about the time we boys set Grandpa Snow''s barn on


id: 59379
title: Plain Concrete for Farm Use
author: Miller, T. A. H. (Thomas Arrington Huntington)
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  Portland cement concrete is the mass formed by mixing Portland cement, sand, gravel (or particles of other suitable materials), and water. In mixing concrete various proportions of cement, sand, gravel, and water of concrete produced is equal to the quantity of sand plus the gravel Table 1 shows the quantity of cement, sand, and gravel required under Forms are required to hold the concrete in place until it has attained The tendency is to use too much water in mixing concrete in a The mixed concrete should be deposited in the forms within from 20 to 30 Concrete which has set before it can be placed in the forms should not be Scum or laitance is likely to form on concrete when placed under water, [Illustration: Fig. 16.--Tremie for use in placing concrete under water.] The materials for water-tight concrete must be well graded, so as to


id: 59380
title: Building with Logs
author: Fickes, Clyde P.
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  In building a log wall the chief problem is in closing the opening [Illustration: Figure 1.--Starting to build the log cabin--laying the one end of log, as in figure 8, at point _A_, then measure required [Illustration: Figure 8.--Framing the flat, or plain, tenon corner.] [Illustration: Figure 13.--Cutting window and door openings.] This method of framing holds the wall logs in place, allows them end of the wall logs may be framed by boring a 2-inch auger hole in each the vertical spline slot framed, and the head jamb log cut out to fit [Illustration: Figure 16.--Log jamb window frame.] [Illustration: Figure 19.--Framing log purlins for shakes.] interior log-wall partitions, these should be laid out and framed in, [Illustration: Figure 27.--Chinkless log cabin construction.] [Illustration: Figure 38.--Plan for making an armchair suitable for log [Illustration: Figure 40.--Plan for making a double bed for log


id: 59381
title: Simple Plumbing Repairs for the Home and Farmstead
author: Anonymous
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  REPAIRING WATER FAUCETS AND VALVES REPAIRING WATER FAUCETS AND VALVES REPAIRING WATER FAUCETS AND VALVES shut off the water at the shutoff valve nearest the particular faucet. valves are usually provided on the water closet supply line, on the (2) the valve is designed to drain the water from the hydrant when the down, closing the valve and stopping the flow of water. REPAIRING LEAKS IN PIPES AND TANKS REPAIRING LEAKS IN PIPES AND TANKS REPAIRING LEAKS IN PIPES AND TANKS Occasionally waters are encountered that corrode metal pipe and tubing. In cold weather, water may freeze in underground pipes laid above the When thawing pipe with a blowtorch, hot water, or similar methods, open [Illustration: _Figure 7._--Water closet (toilet) flush tank.] Disconnect the water pipes to the tank (see fig. Install the tank and connect the water pipes to it. _Burst pipe or tank._--Immediately cut off the flow of water by closing


id: 62608
title: Rat Proofing Buildings and Premises
author: Betts, M. C. (Morris Cotgrave)
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  in case local laws should require that all buildings be made rat proof. proof with concrete foundation and floors and cement-plastered walls] Figure 13.--Rat proofing a poultry house by laying a concrete floor] be taken to make the upper floors and roofs of buildings rat proof, as Most new city buildings are now built practically rat proof, or could ground floors of concrete or other rat-proof material and concrete or essential that the building itself be rat proofed with concrete or rats access to spaces beneath floors or within walls, or even provides made rat proof under the requirements of building ordinances. class A shall have floors made of rat-proof material or of concrete, walls surrounding said floor, which walls shall be made of rat-proof building shall be rat proofed in the manner provided for a class A and materials used in rat proofing shall conform to the building


id: 62592
title: Simple Plumbing Repairs in the Home
author: Warren, George M. (George Milton)
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  replace the seat washer, shut off the water to the faucet. washers for hotor cold-water faucets cost 10 to 15 cents a dozen. Figure 2 shows an ordinary 3/8-inch, 4-ball-handle compression faucet To replace the seat washer, shut off the water to Figure 4, _A_, shows an ordinary half-inch lever-handle Fuller faucet faucet, making a water-tight joint when the cap nut is screwed down. New faucets of the kind shown in figure 1 usually have the top washers Figure 5, _C_, shows the stem packing for the washstand faucet shown faucet and remove the handle and cap nut, as described in connection Figure 7, _B_, shows the plunger and washer-holder cap which screws Rust and dirt in water pipes are more or less successfully removed When thawing a water pipe, work toward the supply, opening a pipe, work upward from the lower end to permit the water to drain away.


