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 638
nd 0, will be that ofa parabola. Another method. Let in I {Fig. 418) be the axis and height,and dd the base. Extend ml and make la equal to ;;//;join a and d, and a and d\ divide ad and ad, each into alike number of equal parts, as at i, 2, 3, etc.; join i and i, 2and 2, etc., and the parabola will… … Fig. 41!
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