Cast iron - A hard, brittle, nonmalleable iron-based alloy containing 2.0% to 4.5% carbon and 0.5% to 3% silicon, cast in a sand mold and machined to make many building products.
Cast Iron
A hard and brittle Iron (eg Pipe Iron Grade B.) cast in a mould to a required shape. Used in this context for casting in the shape of crosses etc for use as grave markers.
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Cast iron: Glenny Building
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CAST IRON
Hard and brittle, cast in a mould to the required shape. Wrought iron is ductile, strong in tension, forged into decorative patterns or forged and rolled into e.g.
cast iron A type of iron, mass-produced in the nineteenth century, created by pouring molten iron into a mold; used for ornament, garden furniture, and building parts.
CAST IRON
Molten Iron that is poured into a mold to achieve a design.
COLONETTE
Short, slender and usually decorative column.
Cast iron producers lead the way into the Italianate style with a wide variety of unbelievably heavy door and window surrounds that reflected the quasi-Italian feeling of the Italian palazzo.
The Cast Iron Soil Pipe Institute an American organisation dedicated to aiding and improving the plumbing industry.
Several cast iron mermaid panels, salvaged from the Old Seaman's Home in Liverpool, form the sides of the Hercules Gazebo. But this playful facade is yet another example of architectural illusion: The Gazebo disguises a generator.
At that time they consisted of timber or cast iron posts set along the sidewalk edge and linked by a front cross bar.To lend support to larger installations, angled rafters linked the front cross bar to the building facade.
The emergence of technological developments in 19th-century building systems, most importantly cast iron used for the superstructure of many buildings, seemed as swift, startling and unrelenting as digital technology seems in the 21st-century.
Rainwater head - A box-shaoed structure of metal, usually cast iron or lead, and sometimes decorated, in which water from a gutter or parapet is collected and discharged into a down-pipe.
Ash dump - A small opening located in the hearth of a fireplace having a cast iron cover, used to dump the ashes down into a cavity below the fire box.
Ogee A specific shape where a concave arc flows into a convex arc. An ogee gutter has particular profile, is usually formed in cast iron, and is still very common in Victorian housing.
Oriel A projecting structure, normally a window.
Compare cast iron.Wyatt windowTerm for the type of large tripartite sash window with narrower side lights and a segmental arch above, made popular by the Wyatt family of architects in the late 18th century.
The growth of heavy industry brought a flood of new building materials-such as cast iron, steel, and glass-with which architects and engineers devised structures hitherto undreamed of either in function, size, and form.
a style originating in England c.1830 and influential in the U.S. from 1850 through 1930, derived from the Renaissance palace architecture of Rome, Florence, and Venice; in the U.S., the structures were executed in masonry, wood, or cast iron.
arches; Queen Anne which was based on the Baroque style but included the intricate use of brick and Victorian which while partially associated with a revival of Gothic style also incorporated Classical elements and made great use of cast iron, ...
the top of an external wall or decorating the junction of the internal wall and the ceiling Course A horizontal layer of some material, especially bricks Cresting A decorative piece along the top of a wall or roof, e.g. filigree cast iron ...
They are made in many shapes and in many different materials such as wood, iron, bronze, stone and marble. Sometimes in the place of balusters the space usually occupied by them is filled in with scrollwork of wrought or cast iron or bronze, ...
Airtight Inspection Cover - A cast Iron plate over an Inspection chamber. Covers are removable, non ventilating and bolted down to a frame, which has a groove filled with grease.
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