The Crystal Palace pane of glass (49 inches) as the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, thereby creating a triangle with a length-to-height ratio of 2.5:1, whose base (adjacent side) was 4 feet long. By mirroring this triangle he obtained the 8-foot-wide gables that formed the vertical faces at either end of the prism, each of which was 24' long. With this arrangement, Paxton could glaze the entire roof surface with identical panes that did not need to be trimmed. Paxton placed three of these 8' x 24' roof units side-by-side, horizontally supported by a grid of cast iron beams, which was held up
Manezhnaya Square, Saint Petersburg Manezhnaya Square, Saint Petersburg Manezhnaya Square (, romanized "Manezhnaya ploschad") ia a square in the Tsentralny District of Saint Petersburg. In some guidebooks this square may be also named a "Riding-School Square": "riding school" is one of the variants in which and may be translated. The shape of Manezhnaya Square is close to the right-angled triangle. Its longest cathetus, the southern side of Manezhnaya Square is formed with "Italyanskaya Street", which runs parallel to Nevsky Prospect, at about hundred meters north of it. The shortest cathetus is "Karavannaya Street", which forms the eastern side of the square running from Nevky