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
Jack (given name) of the word is linked to the name being used as a by-name for a man. Jack (given name) Jack is a male given name. In recent decades, Jack has become one of the most common names for boys in many English-speaking countries. While Jack is now a proper name in its own right, in English; it was traditionally used as a diminutive form of John. It can also be used as a diminutive for: Jacob, Jason, Jonathan, Johann, Johannes, Joachim and sometimes for James, from its French form Jacques. It is also used as a female given name (often