The American house carpenter: a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 61
he stuff, or dove-tailing instead of square. Prepare two slips ofwood, each about two inches long, which shall be of a shape tojust fill the groove when slipped in at the end. These, instead of 44 AMERICAN HOUSE-CARPENTER. pins, are to be attached one to each of the moveable nuts witha screw, loose… … Fiff.82. 117.— To describe an ellipsis by ordinates. Let a b and c d, [Fig. 82,) be given axes. With c e on e d for radius, de-scribe the quadrant,/^ h ; divide f h^ a e and e 6, each into alike number of equal parts, as at ], 2 and 3 ; through thesepoints, draw ordinates, parallel io c d andfg- ;…
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