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 642
45 degrees, and will give the requisite bevelwhen worked upon the edge of the T-square. One reasonwhy this angle is chosen in preference to another is thatwhen shadows are properly made upon the drawing by it,the depth of every recess is more readily known, since thebreadth of shadow and the depth… … Fic;. 420. while those parts which are deprived of light by the inter-position of other bodies are in shadozv. 564.—To Find the L,ine of l^liadow on Mouldings andother Horizontally Straig[ht Projections.—Figs. 421, 422,423, and 424 represent various mouldings in elevation, re-turned at the left, in…
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