The carpenter's new guide; a complete book of lines for carpentry and joinery, treating fully on practical geometry, soffits, groins, niches, roofs, and domes, and containing a great variety of original designs. Also a full exemplification of the theory and practice of stair building, cornices, mouldings, and dressings of every description. Including also some observations and calculations on the strength of timber (1854)
ify of a spherical Segment.Find the areas of the two bases, and mulfiply their sum by half the height of the segment; to this product add the solidity of a sphere whose diameter is equal to the height of the segment. Remark. —When the segment has but one base, the other is to be considered equal to… … OF CARPENTRY. LININGS FOR SOFFITS. DEFINITIONS. The Lining of a Soffit, in Carpentry, signifies the covering of any concave surface. Thelining is drawn as if spread out on a plane, so that when bent to the curve it will exactlyfit the Soffit. A Soffit, in Architecture, is the under side of the head…
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