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 593
nt.The circular segments are called the ends of the cylinder{Fig. 349). PROBLEMS. RIGHT LINES AND ANGLES. 500.—To Bisect a l.iiie.—Upon the ends of the line ab{Fig. 350) as centres, with any distance for radius greaterthan half ab, describe arcs cutting each other in c and d\ 550 PRACTICAL GEOMETRY… … desired to draw, at the middle of another line, one at rightangles to it. (See Art. 514.) 601.—To Erect a Perpendicular.—From the point a{Fig. 351) set off any distance, as ab, and the same distancefrom ^ to ^; upon r, as a centre, with any distance for radiusgreater than ca, describe an arc at d\…
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