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 215
e of the straightrail that is taken in, the greater will be the deflection from the chord; thus va. figure 3, the dis-tance between the chord f r at any point to the nearest point of the projection, is much lessthan the distance i r, fig. 1, from a corresponding point in i r to the nearest point of…
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