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 216
OMETHING ON HIP ROOFS In referring again to hip roofs, I know I amon lines the young workman likes to follow—andmany old ones as well—for in these days thereis such a strong tendency among architects tocut up roofs into as many gables, hips, valleys,saddles, as can possibly be crowded in. This isa… … they are somewhat picturesque. As said before,the cutting of a hip or valley rafter is the sameas cutting a common rafter for a building ofdifferent dimensions with the difference thatwhen used as a hip or valley rafter, the top endmust have side as well as plumb bevels. Inorder to make thisplain,…
Carpenters' squares · Architecture, Domestic · Equerre de charpentier
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