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 348
f revolutions being SCROLLS AT NEWEL. 309 I J. Divide two adjacent sides, as a 2 and 2 i, into as manyequal parts as there are quarters in the number of revolu-tions, as seven ; from those points of division draw linesacross the square at right angles to the lines divided ; thenI being the first… … Fig. 173, 290,—Scroll for Hand-Rail Over Curtail Step. — Let a b {Fig. 173) be the given breadth, if the given number ofrevolutions, and let the relative size of the regulating squareto the eye be \ of the diameter of the eye. Then, by therule, if multipled by 4 gives 7, and 3, the number of times…
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