Scaffolding
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Description
Thatcher, a building surveyor, wrote Scaffolding, a treatise on the design and erection of scaffolds, gantries, and stagings. Batsford published the second, revised edition in London in 1907. The book carries 146 diagrams and six full-page plates, the first showing derrick staging photographed in a London street. It is written for contractors, builders, and clerks of works.
A note explains the new edition. Changes in the law affecting scaffolding and the men who erect it forced a revision. Thatcher also folded in the safety suggestions of the Chief Inspector of Factories, whose annual report had urged practices meant to cut the number of fatal accidents at building works. The chapters define the northern and south country systems, working platforms, and travelling gantries, and a legal chapter treats liability. The book is a working manual from the years when scaffolding was still poles, ropes, and the scaffolder's craft.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 224 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |