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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 612

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627.—Witliin a Given Circle, to In§eribe an EquilateralTriangle, Hexagon or Dodecagon.—Let abed (Fig. 380) bethe given circle. Draw the diameter bd\ upon b, with theradius of the given circle, describe the arc aec\ join a and r,also a and d, and c and d—and the triangle is completed.For the… … Fig. 380. hexagon is completed. The dodecagon may be formed bybisecting the sides of the hexagon. Each side of a regular hexagon is exactly equal to theradius of the circle that circumscribes the figure. For theradius is equal to a chord of an arc of 60 degrees; and, asevery circle is supposed to…

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