Excerpt from Elementary Building Construction and Drawing This book, which has been compiled from Notes of Lectures delivered to the Day Students Of the People's Palace Technical Schools, is intended for the use, more particularly, of those pre paring for the examination in Elementary Building Construction and Drawing conducted by the Science and Art Department. The object in introducing the present work is to meet the growing demand for a suitable text-book, published at a price such as will bring it Within the reach of all. One has only to note the rapid strides which are now being made in technical education in order to realise that such a demand really exists. The chief aim of the writer has been to place before the student numerous examples of constructive details, which shall not only serve as illustrations to the text, but shall also afford the data necessary for making scale drawings of the various parts. With this end in view the diagrams have been carefully dimensioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.