Calendar: 1859-1860 Page 103

APPLIED SCIENCES 103 The matters which are or which furnish materials for the purposes of the Constructor and for Constructions themselves how such matters are affected by the various influences to which they may be exposed as materials in or in aid of Constructions as heat and cold moisture and dryness the modes employed for protecting materials singly or in com- bination as or in Constructions from such influences as are disturbing or destructive or of counteracting such influences The qualities required in materials and which give value to the several matters which become materials available in con- struction how to distinguish such qualities in materials and how to apply materials with reference to their respective qualities The materials which possess requisite qualities and how to elicit and apply them in practice Combination and Construction in what they are concurrent and in what they differ Bond or the artificial disposition of materials to compel them to resist pressure unitedly Bond as principle in con- struction and in its particular application to certain of the arts of construction Framing as means of combining rigid fibrous materials to compel them to act together whether it be in and as framed roof framed floor framed field-gate or framed lock-gate framed barn-door or as framed door to kitchen or parlour in dwelling-house Trussing as variety of framing by which the principle of the arch is made available in Carpentry with tie instead of abutment Arching as means of bearing over voids with heavy mate- rials requiring counteractingly heavy or otherwise sufficiently resisting abutments The manufacture of Bricks the composition of Mortars and Cements the setting or laying of Bricks Quarrying Stone converting dressing adapting hoisting adjusting setting and fixing Stone in Constructions Converting Timber to the various purposes of the Con- structor Framing Timber Trussing Timbers by simple Car