Sloan's constructive architecture : a guide to the practical builder and mechanic. In which is contained a series of designs for domes, roofs and spires, with a number of plates showing the interior construction and finish of bays, window shutters, sliding doors, etc., designed expressly for the joiners use; choice examples of the five orders of architecture, selected fromthe most celebrated specimens of antiquity, with the figured dimensions of their height, projection and profile, and their division into parts,; to which is added a number of useful geometrical problems, examples of groins, centering for arches, diagrams of stair lines, with architraves, door mouldings, etc., the whole being accompanied by explanatory text and general essays, to which is appended a copious glossay (1859)
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884 · Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 124
e plate to which the sheave is attached. K, on this figure, denotes thesheave. By this arrangement, the movement of the cranks is regulated by the lever, until the waybecomes central in the cavity, when the flange described at 0 0 enters the groove, as shown at Pon Fig. 4, and by the dotted line at… … ^Sam^i Sloan AjcV i* r seiLtiial-^riJt^Piisli C A R P E N T R Y A N D .1 O I N E R Y. 65 duction and employment of suitable machinery in departments formerly intrusted tothe most expert and careful artizans. In many European countries old methods still prevail, in others the spirit ofimprovement in…
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