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 624
Any polygonal figure, as A {Fig. 397), formed on the hy-pothenuse of a right-angled triangle, will be equal to twosimilar figures,^^ as B and C, formed on the two legs of thetriangle. … Fig. 397. 538.—To Construct a Square Equal to a Given Rect-angle.—Let A {Fig. 398) be the given rectangle. Extendthe side ab and make be equal to <^^; bisect <^^ in/, andupon /, with the radius fa, describe the semi-circle agc\extend eb till it cuts the curve in g\ then a square bgJid,formed…
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