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 369
d l^i a FiGo 192. Fig. 193. is composed of but few members, varied in form and size,and arranged so that the plane and the curved surfaces suc-ceed each other alternatelv. 312.—The Grecian Torus and Scotia.—Join the extremi-ties a and b {Fig. 191), and from /, the given projection ofthe moulding,… … Fig. 195. draw bh at right angles to ab\ bisect abvac, join /and r,and upon c, with the radius cf, describe the ^yc fh, cuttingbh in //; through c draw de parallel with the fillets ; makedc and cc each equal to bh\ then de and a b will be conju-gate diameters of the required ellipse. To describe…
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