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 611
problem, and should be well studied, as it is frequentlyused to solve problems on stairs, domes, etc. Another method. Let a bfc {Fig. 377) be the given circle.Draw the diameter a c; from d, the centre, and at right an- 568 PRACTICAL GEOMETRY. gles to ac^ draw db\ join b and c\ bisect be at e\ from… … • Fig. 377. circumference found by this rule be divided by 648 • 22 thequotient will be the excess. Deduct this excess, and theremainder will be the true circumference. This problem israther more curious than useful, as it is less labor to performthe operation arithmetically, simply multiplying the…
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