Roof Truss

He would elude his father if he could, but the roof-truss was small, and the old gentleman's voice was already at the roof door. ❋ Various (N/A)

A fire-sprinkler lay ready in the roof-truss, and cloths were at hand to dip into water and protect the places most in danger. ❋ Various (N/A)

These early sheds were all of very similar design, and were composed of trestles with some ordinary form of roof-truss. ❋ George Whale (N/A)

They invented and developed a variety of forms of roof-truss in which the proper distribution of the strains was combined with a highly decorative treatment of the several parts by carving, moulding, and arcading. ❋ Unknown (1890)

He made the tie-beams of the roof-truss, which are thirty-eight braccia in length from wall to wall, of a number of timbers well scarfed and fastened together, since it was not possible to find beams of sufficient size for the purpose; and whereas the tie-beams of other roof-trusses have only one king-post, all those of this Hall have three each, a king-post in the middle, and a queen-post on either side. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)

I have thought it right to describe how this roof-truss is made, because it was constructed with beautiful design, and I have seen drawings made of it by many for sending to various places. ❋ Giorgio Vasari (1542)

A derrick, the half of an English roof-truss, a Whipple girder, the other half of the roof-truss and another derrick, are very excellent things in thmeselves, but to string them together upon one line, thereby making a bridge, is not engineering, nor is it architecture. ❋ Unknown (2009)