Calendar: 1860-1861 Page 118

APPLIED SCIENCES 119 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- pentry and with the aid of iron either cast as in heads and shoes or otherwise in substitution of timber under compression or wrought in substitution of timber under tensile strain as in rods and as means of holding work together in straps pins screw and nutted screw-bolts &c Metals generally applicable as such in or as aids in con- struction and the modes of applying them according to their respective uses