Woodworking has been one of the most important technologies from the earliest times. Carpentry was important for buildings and bridges and as an integral part of most construction processes. The history of this subject has been explored by a variety of scholars, from archaeologists who have studied medieval timber techniques to engineers who have been interested in the development of bridges. The different studies have explored the methods of carpentry, the behaviour of the structures that were built and even the economic and social histories behind the development of carpentry techniques. This book collects together a number of papers representing this full range of scholarship as well as providing a general review of work in the field.
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'The aim of Ashgate's twelve volume series is to bring together collections of important papers on particular topics from scholarly journals, conference proceedings and other hard-to-access sources. This is a wholly laudable objective. Some of the papers in the volume under review [ The Civil Engineering of Canals and Railways before 1850] cannot be found even in abundantly-resourced academic libraries. The series opens up, directly or indirectly, debates over the nature of historical evidence which arise from the profoundly different approaches to the past of historians of technology, whose works are principally represented in these volumes, industrial archaeologists and social and economic historians.' Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol. XXI, No. 1
Acknowledgements vii General Editors Preface xi Introduction xiii MEDIEVAL TIMBER STRUCTURES The cruck-built barn of Leigh Court, Worcestershire, England 1(26) F.W.B. Charles Walter Horn The Grammar of carpentry 27(8) Richard Harris The timber roofs of York Minster 35(30) J. Quentin Hughes Jettying and floor-framing in medieval Essex 65(26) Cecil A. Hewett Where roof meets wall: structural innovations and hammer-beam antecedants, 1150--1250 91(36) Lynn T. Courtenay The Westminster Hall roof: a historiographic and structural study 127(24) Lynn T. Courtenay R. Mark Westminster Hall roof 151(38) Jacques Heyman THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD Early carpenters manuals, 1592--1820 189(22) David T. Yeomans The strength testing of timber during the 17th and 18th centuries 211(26) L.G. Booth Sir Christopher Wrens carpentry: a note on the library at Trinity College, Cambridge 237(4) Henry M. Fletcher Structural design in the eighteenth century: James Essex and the roof of Lincoln Cathedral
Chapter House 241(8) David T. Yeomans In Delormes Manner 249(8) Douglas Harnsberger NINETEENTH-CENTURY STRUCTURES Early wooden truss connections vs. wood shrinkage: from mortise-and-tenon joints to bolted connections 257(26) Lee H. Nelson British and American solutions to a roofing problem 283(8) David T. Yeomans The development of laminated timber arch structures in Bavaria, France and England in the early nineteenth century 291(14) L.G. Booth Case study of Burr truss covered bridge 305(22) Emory L. Kemp John Hall The evolution of wooden bridge trusses to 1850 327(46) J.G. James Index 373
David T. Yeomans, University of Liverpool, UK F. W. B. Charles, Walter Horn, Richard Harris, J. Quentin Hughes, Cecil A. Hewett, Lynn T. Courtenay, R. Mark, Jacques Heyman, David T. Yeomans, L. G. Booth, Henry M. Fletcher, Douglas Harnsberger, Lee H. Nelson, Emory L. Kemp, John Hall, J. G. James.
