Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 153
To mate a good tie-joiut requires great attention on the part of the carpenter ; and, for uniting wall-plates, the dovetail joint, Fig. 2444, is sometimes adopted. If the efitcts that „^^^ shrinking may produce be taken into consideration, the more usual system of i ^ halving, Fig. 2443, is…
Mechanical engineering · Mechanics · Engineering
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