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 304
izontally draw b^ w^^; at any point on b^ w^^ locate w^^,and make w^^w^ equal to //, and bisect it in iv; erect theperpendiculars w^ a^^^y w d^^^, and w^^ v ; join t^^ and a^^^^; from^v// horizontally draw d^^^ d^^; parallel with r^ k^ draw^v/ Cii.r W^ ^^^ have the plan and elevations of the prism.… … Fig. 142. Comparing Fig. 142 with Fig. 141, the line h^zv^, is thetrace, upon a vertical plane, of the horizontal plane abed 266 STAIRS. of Fig. 141, or is the ground-line from which the heights ofthe prism are to be taken. The triangle<^;, b^ a^^ is represented in Fig. 141 at abg, andthe…
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