Text-book of modern carpentry : comprising a treatise on building timber, with rules and tables for calculating its strength, and the strains to which each timber of a structure is subjected; observations on roofs, trusses, bridges, &c. and a glossary, explaining at length the technical terms in use among carpenters - Silloway, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1828-1910 (American architectural books, 1858)