Carpentry made easy, or, The science and art of framing, on a new and improved system : with specific instructions for building balloon frames, barn frames, mill frames, warehouses, church spires, etc., comprising also a system of bridge building, with bills, estimates of cost, and valuable tables ... (1857)
Bell, William E · Philadelphia : Howard Challen · leaf 26
g. 10.The rf>cto?J5f7e, or oblong square. Fig. 11, has all its angles right angles and its opposite sides equal and parallel. Tlie parallelogram, Fig. 12, has its opposite sides equal and parallel.Ev! i-v ioct:ii:.ir!. is:: itanilk !(>;;iiim, bill every parallelogram is not a rectangle. The… … GEOMETBY. 19 25. The base of any polygon is the side on which it is supposed to stand. 26. The altitude of a triangle is the perpendicular let fall upon the baseiVom the vertex of the angle opposite the base. Thus, in Fig. 6, AB is theultitude of the triangle ACD. 27. The altitude of a…
Carpentry · Bridges
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