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 634
d {Fig. 411)be given axes. From c draw c e parallel to ab \ from a drawae parallel to ^<^; join e and d\ bisect ea in /; join / and c,intersecting e d in i\ bisect ic in o\ from o draw og at rightangles to ic, meeting ^<^ extended to g\ join i and ^, cuttingthe transverse axis in r; make Jij… … Fig. 412. radius, describe the arcs ini^^nd ln\ this will complete thefigure. When the axes are proportioned to one another, as at 2to 3, the extremities, c and d^ of the shortest axis, will bethe centres for describing the arcs il and ni n ; and the inter-section oi e d with the transverse axis…
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