The Technology of Historic American Buildings: Studies of the Materials, Craft Processes, and the Mechanization of Building Construction
Washington, D.C. Foundation for Preservation Technology for the Association for Preservation Technology, 1983. Softcover. Cream & illus. wraps, 224 pp., BW illus. G (Covers are aged and/or soiled, with former owner name written at top of front cover; some instances of yellow highlighting in text; pages are otherwise clean.). Item #152928
ISBN: 0092476074
A collection of seven essays dealing with a variety of building-related topics: 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.
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