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 590
Fig. 344. An arc of a circle is a part of the circumference {c b, orbed, Fig. 344). A chord is a right line joining the extremities of an arc {b d, Fig. zAA)-^ A segment is any part of a circle bounded by an arc andits chord {A, Fig. 344).
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