All 8 Uses of
truss
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The thing that came next did not look like a building, but like a shell of checkered glass enclosing girders, cranes and trusses in a solid, blinding, orange spread of flame.†
Chpt 1.2
- The bridge was to be a single twelve-hundred-foot truss span.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- He had devised a new type of truss.†
Chpt 1.7
- The day when he stood here, in this office, at this window, and thought that a bridge could be made to carry incredible loads on just a few bars of metal, if one combined a truss with an arch, if one built diagonal bracing with the top members curved toHe stopped and stood still.†
Chpt 1.7
- He had not thought of combining a truss with an arch, that day.†
Chpt 1.7
- Listen, you know the contraption you called the Rearden Truss, that you admired so much?†
Chpt 1.7
- I've figured out a truss that will beat anything ever built!†
Chpt 1.7
- You see, it's a matter of combining a truss with an arch.†
Chpt 1.7
Definition:
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(truss as in: the roof's trusses) a structural form (rigid, web-like assembly of smaller, usually triangular members) that supports a roof, bridge or other structure