. Factory and industrial management . 1M)R OF CATHEHKAI. AT Ml-.^. Typical Gothic Arched Opening. the lintel and the arch, it is, I believe, sufficient to eventually givebirth to a new and coherent use of harmonious ornament. The principle of the cantilever, to put it paradoxically, is that youcan double the strength of a beam by cutting it in two. In Fig. I, for instance, we see a beam, say, twenty feet long, ca-pable of sustaining, say, ten thousand pounds. If, now, the beam besawed in two, at A and K, the middle piece, being only half the lengthof the whole beam, will sustain twice th
. Factory and industrial management . 1M)R OF CATHEHKAI. AT Ml-.^. Typical Gothic Arched Opening. the lintel and the arch, it is, I believe, sufficient to eventually givebirth to a new and coherent use of harmonious ornament. The principle of the cantilever, to put it paradoxically, is that youcan double the strength of a beam by cutting it in two. In Fig. I, for instance, we see a beam, say, twenty feet long, ca-pable of sustaining, say, ten thousand pounds. If, now, the beam besawed in two, at A and K, the middle piece, being only half the lengthof the whole beam, will sustain twice the load,—in this case, twenty THE CANTILEVER IN ARCHITECTURE. thousand pounds. The end pieces also are each capable of sustainingten thousand, each its share of the load of the middle piece. True,they could not for a moment stand, as they are shown in Fig. i ; they. 1^^ FIG. I. BEAM, SAWED IN TWO PLACESso that middle piece is half the length of the original. must extend over the supporting post, and be held down at the outerextremity by another load, or some other device, as in Fig. 2, or theymust be braced by diagonal bracket-pieces. The former arrangement
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