The Technology of historic American buildings
Subtitle: studies of the materials, craft processes, and the mechanization of building construction
By: H. Ward Jandl, editor.
Contributors: Jandl, H. Ward.
Publisher: Published by the Foundation for Preservation Technology for the Association for Preservation Technology
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Historic buildings -- United States; Building; Building materials
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes and index.
Table of contents: title: The historic development of hand forged iron builders' hardware / Donald Streeter; title: 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; title: Inventing the I-beam : Richard Turner, Cooper & Hewitt and others / Charles E. Peterson; title: Cast iron in American architecture : a synoptic view / Antoinette J. Lee; title: The manufacture and use of architectural terra cotta in the United States / Robert C. Mack; title: Decorative metal roofing in the United States / Mary B. Dierickx; title: Economical painting : the tools and techniques used in exterior painting in the 19th century / Pamela W. Hawkes.