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 257
in one quarter of the dome are alike in form, a method forobtaining the curves may be useful. … Fig. 99. To find the curves for the ribs of an elliptical dome, letabed {Fig. 98) be the plan of a dome, and ef the seat ofone of the ribs. Then take e f ior the transverse axis andtwice the rise, og, of the dome for the conjugate, and de- COVERING OF DOMES. 221 scribe (according to Arts. 548, 549,…
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