Young, George, jr, Baxter, Hubert Eugene, joint author · New York, Macmillan · leaf 205
by projecting its outline,as in the circular stairs shown in Fig. 178. In most cases,however, a better conception is given if some of the elements 186 DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY [VIII, § 162 of the surface are drawn. When this is done, as in Fig. 176,the drawing shows the modeUng of the surface to a… … C^-o :a of revolution (§ 161), b generated by revolving a straight lineabout an axis not in its ovm plane. As in the case of every surface of revolution, any sectionperpendicular to the axis will be a circle. That point of thegeneratrix which is nearest the axis will generate the smallestpossible…
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