THE

ARCHITECT'S AND BUILDER'S

POCKET-BOOK

OF

MENSURATION, GEOMETRY, GEOMETRICAL PROBLEMS, TRIGO
NOMETRICAL FORMULAS AND TABLES. STRENGTH AND
STABILITY OF FOUNDATIONS, WALLS. BUTTRESSES,
PIERS, ARCHES, POSTS, TIES, BEAMS, GIRDERS,
TRUSSES, FLOORS, ROOFS, ETC.

IN ADDITION TO WHICH IS

A GREAT AMOUNT OF CONDENSED INFORMATION:

STATISTICS AND TABLES RELATING TO CARPENTRY, MASONRY.
DRAINAGE, PAINTING AND GLAZING, PLUMBING, PLAS-
TERING, ROOFING, HEATING AND VENTILATION,
WEIGHTS OF MATERIALS, CAPACITY AND
DIMENSIONS OF NOTED CHURCHES,
THEATRES, DOMES, TOWERS,
SPIRES, ETC.,

WITH A GREAT VARIETY OF MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

BY

FRANK EUGENE KIDDER, C.E., PH.D.,

CONSULTING ARCHITECT, DENVER, COLO.

ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 500 ENGRAVINGS, MOSTLY FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS

TWELFTH EDITION,

REVISED AND GREATLY ENLARGED.

INCLUDING A GLOSSARY OF TECHNICAL TERMS-ANCIENT AND MODERN.
FIRST THOUSAND.

TRANSFERRED TO

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

May 13, 1931

COPYRIGHT,

By F. E. KIDDER,

1892.

Press of J. J. Little & Co.
Astor Piace, New York.

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THOSE WHOSE KINDNESS HAS ENABLED ME TO PRODUCE IT.

TO MY PARENTS,

WHO GAVE ME THE EDUCATION UPON WHICH IT IS BASED;

TO MY WIFE,

FOR HER LOVING SYMPATHY, ENCOURAGEMENT, AND ASSIST

ANCE;

TO ORLANDO W. NORCROSS

OF WORCESTER, MASS.,

WHOSE SUPERIOR PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THAT
PERTAINS TO BUILDING HAS GIVEN ME A MORE
INTELLIGENT AND PRACTICAL VIEW OF

THE SCIENCE OF CONSTRUCTION

THAN I SHOULD OTHERWISE

HAVE OBTAINED.