A practical treatise on the steel square and its application to everyday use : being an exhaustive collection of steel square problems and solutions, "old and new", with many original and useful additions, forming a complete encyclopedia of steel square knowledge, together with a brief history of the square, and description of tables, keys and other aids and attachments (1903)
Hodgson, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas), 1836-1919 · Riverside, Ill. : Radford Architectural Co. · leaf 168
angleif it is a sawed,or from the lineif it is a hewntim-ber. Now, a lean-ing brace of the kind in point is !<-*= 6-—-*»! nothing more than fig. 125 a leaning post, and in this case the post leans 5feet 3 inches from the perpendicular. So in thesame way lay out, not from toe to toe, butfrom toe… … 166 PRACTICAL USES OF According to the foregoing argument, then, therun is not 6 feet, but 5 feet 3 inches. And weproceed to lay off the brace, using 24 inches onthe long and io}4 inches on the short blade ofthe square, and applying to the corner of thetimber, or to the line parallel with it as…
Carpenters' squares · Architecture, Domestic · Equerre de charpentier
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