The American house-carpenter; a treatise on the art of building, and the strength of materials (1867)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 62
e stuff, or dove-tailing instead of square. Prepare two slips otwood, each about two inches long, which shall be of a shape tojust fill the groove when slipped in at the end. These, instead of AMERICAN HOUSE-CARPENTER. 49 pins, are to be attached one to each of the moveable nuts witha screw, loose… … Fig. 82. 117.— To describe an ellipsis hy ordinates. Let a h and c a,{Pig- 82,) be given axes. With c e or e d for radius, de-scribe the quadrant,/^ h ; divide f h, a e and e b, each into alike number of equal parts, as at 1, 2 and 3; through thesepoints, draw ordinates, parallel to c d and fg ;…
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