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An improved and enlarged edition of Biddle's young carpenter's assistant : being a complete system of architecture for carpenters, joiners, and workmen in general, adapted to the style of building in the United States ; revised and corrected, with several additional articles, and forty-eight new designs, chiefly of full size, working drawings of modern finish, in detail ; particularly adapted for country use (1833)

Biddle, Owen, Haviland, John, 1792-1852 · Philadelphia : M'Carty & Davis, 171 Market Street · leaf 119

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PLATE 42. … Sca.lt • ^ f^ct jp THE YOUNG CARPENTERS ASSISTANT. 33 will then describe the true curve of an arch, which, supposing the materials to beall equal in weight, Mill have no tendency to rise or fall in one part more than inanother. This is called the Catenarian Curve, and is represented by fig. C, a…

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