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 625
c\extend eb till it cuts the curve in g\ then a square bgJid,formed on the line bg, will be equal in area to the rectan-gle yi. * Similar figures are such as have their several angles respectively equal,and their sides respectively proportionate. 582 PRACTICAL GEOMETRY. Another method. Let A {Fig.… … Fig. 398. the square B, formed on the line af, will be equal in area tothe rectangle A. (See Arts. 352 and 353.) 639-—To Form a l^quare Equal to a Given Triangle.— Let a b {Fig. 398) equal the base of the given triangle, and b e A / Fio. 399. equal half its perpendicular height (see Fig. 392); then…
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