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 379
and P. 320-—Eave Cornices Proportioned to Height of Build-ing.—Draw the line ac {Fig. 243), and make be and ba eachequal to 36 inches; from <^ draw bd Tit right angles to ac,and equal in length to f of ac\ bisect bdm c, and from a,through e, draw af\ upon a, Avith ac for radius, describe thearc… … Fig. 233. 7
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