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 202
in thelast plate ; and from the end of the pitch-board at 6, set from b to d half the thickness of theballister, to the inside ; then set from dtoe half the width of the rail, and draw the form ofthe? rail on the end at e, the point b being where the front of the riser oomes, then the point ewill…
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