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History of Roof Trusses
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History of Roof Trusses

History of Roof Trusses

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Help! If you know any links or references or websites please reply. thanks very much!

RE: History of Roof Trusses

It would help if we knew what kind of wood trusses you need information on.
If you mean the ordinary metal plate connected truss then check www.woodtruss.com (Wood Truss Council of America). They publish a "Wood Truss Handbook" which contains a history of that specific type of truss.
As for other types of trusses, their history goes back a long way, certainly to Mediaeval times, but I'm not sure whether there us a scholarly text on the subject.

RE: History of Roof Trusses

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Start with the Wood Truss Council's website, http://www.woodtruss.com/. It's my understanding that modern wood trusses (metal-plate connected, that is) have been used since the late 1940's, early 1950's.

RE: History of Roof Trusses

Hey Viking fan, the guy before you said the same thing. You are taking up valuable screen space.  Go Bears!!!!  

RE: History of Roof Trusses

Trussdoc's message was typed at the same time mine was; imagine my surprise when, after submitting my post, I saw that he'd said the same thing at the same time. Obviously, great minds think alike.

As for you, I *am* a Viking, not a fan of the football team, thank you very much. I don't live anywhere near Minnesota, either. As far as football is concerned, it's too wimpy; it should be played in the nude and to the death. Me, I'm into full-contact Scrabble.

With that utter nonsense out of the way, I wanted to let prichard know that I was looking through an interesting book last night, called "The Pageant of Medieval Art and Life" by Richard McLanathan. It's a fascinating book and has several good architectural drawings (rendered by an arctitect in 1966) of old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. What I noticed were what looked like king post trusses supporting the roof. Old St. Pete's predates Michaelangelo, by something like 1000 years. The book is out of print (I have a copy my mother bought probably in 1966) and I just checked the online booksellers - they're trying to get $50 for it...

Just thought you'd be interested.

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