Rudimentary treatise on the erection of dwelling-houses : illustrated by a perspective view, plans, elevations, and sections of a pair of semi-detached villas with the specification, quantities, and estimates and every requisite detail, in sequence, for their construction and finishing / by S.H. Brooks. (1874)
Brooks, S. H. (Samuel H.) · London : Lockwood · leaf 96
pendicular to thepaper, and consequently paral-lel to eacl other, at whateveropening the legs of the com-passes may be extendetl to. In our engraving, the pivots of the two point limbs/,& and e, g to the two carrying pieces, which are jointedto the tubes at a and b, also give the means of… … 76 ERECTION OF DWELLING-HOUSES. limbs can be turned upon these pivots so as to makethe points e and g, or / and h change places. By thissimple and ingenious contrivance, the draftsman, afterhaving used the two fine points e and /, for fixingwith precision the opening of the compass to his re-quired…
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