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The carpenter's new guide: being a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery. Treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, brick and plaster groins ... with a great variety of designs for roofs, trussed girders ... with many other things entirely new: the whole founded on true geometrical principles; the theory and practice well explained and fully exemplified on eighty-four copper-plates; including some observations and calculations on the strength of timber (1830)

Nicholson, Peter, 1765-1844 · Philadelphia, J. Grigg · leaf 187

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n n ~! r n n n J! II i! !i II II II ■ II II I! II 11 II II. r 1 . 1 DESIGNS OF ROOFS. 8S PLATE XLVIII. Fig. Jl is another design for a domical roof; the bottom of it is made into a very narrowcompass, in order to gain room within the dome. Figures B and C are designs for circular and elliptical…

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