The Sheet metal worker's instructor : for zinc, sheet iron, copper, and tin plate workers, and others, containing a selection of geometrical problems, also practical and simple rules for describing the various patterns required in the different branches of the above trades (1906)
Warn, Reuben Henry · Philadelphia : Henry Carey Baird & Co. · leaf 230
bisect (divide equally) any given straight line, as A B (Fig. 34) : Take the compasses, and v^^ith the centre Fig. 34. A, describe (that is, draw) the arc of a circle 2, 3. With the centre b and the same radius, de- scribe the arc 4, 5, cutting (or crossing the first arc at 6 and 7. Lastly, through… … A C B a line perpendicular to A b : With c as centre,
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