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 318
; the larger one equal in diameter to the diame-ter of the newel-cap, the inner one distant from the outerone equal to half the width of the rail. Let the first joint inthe hand-rail be located at b, at the fourth riser; through bdraw h k tangent to the circle. Select a point, //, on this PLAN OF… … Fig. 158. the curve from b to the point of the mitre of the newel-cap,the curve being tangent, at this point, to the line a h. Selectpositions for the other joints in the hand-rail as at c, d, c, and /. 280 STAIRS. Through these draw lines tangent to the circle.* Then thehorizontal projection of…
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