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 605
tablein the Appendix it will be seen that— The square of the radius, 75, equals . . 5625The square of half the chord, 60, equals . 3600 The difference is 2025 The square root of this is . . . -45This deducted from the radius ... 75 The remainder is the versed sine, = 30 This is expressed by the… … height of the segment. Through c draw ef parallel \,o ab\draw bf at right angles to cb\ make ce equal to cf\ drawag and bh at right angles io ab\ divide ce^ cf, da, db, ag,and bh, each into a like number of equal parts, as four;draw the lines i 1,22, etc., and from the points 0, 0, and 0,draw lines…
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