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Appleton's cyclopædia of drawing, designed as a textbook for the mechanic, architect, engineer, and surveyor (1866)

Worthen, William Ezra, 1819-1897, [from old catalog] ed, Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1866. D. Appleton & co.) [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 50

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iameter or side of a sphere or cube of half the solidity. And if the slidebe set to (say) 8, and the same number be taken from a scale of equalparts, then will D E measure 2 on the same scale, or the cube root of 8. Beam compasses (fig. 73).—When it is required to set off with accuracydistances of… … Fig. 73. face is inlaid throughout its whole length a slip of holly or boxwood, a a,upon which are engrayed the divisions or scale, either feet and decimals orinches and decimals, or whateyer particular scale may be required; butordinary beam compasses are constructed with a plain beam, with no…

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