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The Architectural review and American builders' journal (1869)

Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, Lukens, Charles J · [Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger] · leaf 59

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exible, and to be hinged at the backpart of the chair-seat, could have beenthrown forward 1 inch at the top, allow-ing a perpendicular line from the frontof the chair-seat to the floor to be rathershorter than one from the floor to theinner part of the knee-joint, flexed atan angle of ninety… … tion of the thighs would have restedupon the chair-seat; and the sitter musthave experienced perfect ease. But thechair, not being planned for such angles, 1868.] Chairs, Settles, Pews, Forms, Stools, and Seats generally. 41 would have been hardly self-supporting,having a tendency to topple over…

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