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Updated: June 25, 2025
In the rearing of skyscrapers, it is now usual to have a temporary wire strung vertically, so that the architect may stand on the ground and confer with a foreman who sits astride of a naked girder three hundred feet up in the air. And in the electric light business, the current is distributed wholly by telephoned orders.
Girder, old Dame Loup-the-Dyke, and the goodman of the dwelling "Mr. Caleb! Mr. Caleb Balderstone! I hope ye arena ganging dry-lipped by our door, and we sae muckle indebted to you?" This might be said ironically as well as in earnest.
Bide-the-Bent, can a man do mair than stand reproved?" said the cooper; "but jest let me ask the women what for they hae dished the wild-fowl before we came." "They arena dished, Gilbert," said his wife; "but but an accident " "What accident?" said Girder, with flashing eyes. "Nae ill come ower them, I trust? Uh?"
Next came the question, what would be the best form of substructure for the new mode of conveyance? Suspended rods or ropes, at a considerable height, appeared to me to have great advantages over any road on the level of the ground; the suspended rods also seemed superior to any stiff form of rail or girder supported at a height.
"Eh! sirs ay! and will hae her? and is she weel-favoured? and what's the colour o' her hair? and does she wear a habit or a railly?" were the questions which the females showered upon the butler. "Hout tout! it wad tak a man a day to answer a' your questions, and I hae hardly a minute. Where's the gudeman?" "Awa' to fetch the minister," said Mrs. Girder, "precious Mr.
This would have taken too long to erect when railhead was at the place, so a diversion had been made round it, the temporary track leading down almost to the bed of the nullah and up again on the further side. When the foundations and abutments were ready, the gully was spanned by an iron girder, the slopes leading up to it banked up on either side, and the permanent way laid on an easy grade.
He was impressing me anew, and I was wondering whether he was unique of his kind or whether there existed regiments of him in this strange parcel of England. 'Now, you see this girder, he said, looking upwards. That's surely something of Fuge's, isn't it? I asked, indicating a small picture in a corner, after he had finished his explanation of the functions of the girder.
If his position, clinging to a girder high above the city, made no sense, it did not make less sense than the position of a man, or a Dewforth, sitting in a blind cell among thousands of other blind cells down there, drawing tiny lines. Nothing bound him to the drafting room nor even to the Dewforth of the drafting room not so much as a spider web or a shaft of light. The light pointed to itself.
I remember once how, through the parting of a chain, a sixty-foot girder had come down and lay under a ruck of other stuff, as the bottom chip lies under a pile of spellikins a hopeless-looking smash.
The Trellis or Warren girder is a modification of the same plan, consisting of a top and bottom flange, with a connecting web of diagonal flat bars, forming a complete system of triangulation—hence the name of “Triangular girder,” by which it is generally known.
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