Excerpt from Roof Framing Made Easy: A Practical and Easily Comprehended System, Adapted to Modern Construction, for Laying Out and Framing RoofsThe entire work is dedicated to my Wife, through whose aid and encouragement I have been enabled to persevere and succeed in the study of technical principles.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.