Rudimentary treatise on the erection of dwelling-houses : illustrated by a perspective view, plans, elevations, and sections of a pair of semi-detached villas ... (1896)
Brooks, S. H. (Samuel H.) · London : C. Lockwood and Son · leaf 110
86 ERECTION OF DWELLING-HOUSES. to the tripod and each other. These limbs carry points at right angles to the plane of the instrument^ which may be brought to coincide with any three given points on the original drawing, and then transferred to the copy as above described. Beam Compasses, The… … required, generally made of well-seasoned mahogany; upon its face is inlaid, throughout its whole length, a slip of holly or box-wood, «, upon which are en- graved the divisions or scales, either feet and decimals, or inches and decimals, or whatever particular scale may be required : those made…
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