The American house carpenter. A treatise on the art of building. Comprising styles of architecture, strength of materials, and the theory and practice of the construction of floors, framed girders, roof trusses, rolled-iron beams, tubular-iron girders, cast-iron girders, stairs, doors, windows, mouldings, and cornices; together with a compend of mathematics. A manual for the practical use of architects, carpenters, stair-builders, and others (1880)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879, Hatfield, O. P., ed · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 19
o or Proportion 366 VIII.—Fractions 378 IX.—Algebra 392 X.—Polygons ..., 439 XL—The Circle 468 • XII.—The Ellipse 481 XIII.—The Parabola 492 XIV.—Trigonometry 510 XV.—Drawing 536 XVI.—Practical Geometry 544 XVII.—Shadows 596 Table of Contents in detail 613. IV CONTENTS. APPENDIX. Glossary 627 Table… … PART I SECTION I.—ARCHITECTURE, Art. I Buildinir Defined.—Building and Architecture are technical terms by some thought to be synonymous ;but there is a distinction. Architecture has been defined tobe—*the art of building; but more correctly it is—theart of designing and constructing buildings, in…
Carpentry · Architecture · Building
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