The American House Carpenters' and Joiners' Assistant: Being a New and Easy System of Lines, Founded on Geometrical Principles, for Cutting Every Description of Joints, and for Framing the Most Difficult Roofs; to which is Added a Complete Treatise on Mathematical Instruments. Also, Mensuration, Tables of the Weights and Cohesive Strength of the Several Materials Used in the Construction of Buildings, &c |
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26 Spruce St angle rib beam beam compasses bevel breadth Cast Iron circle circumference colatitude constructed copy cube root cubic feet depth describe the arc diagonal diameter divided draw the lines edge Eighths elevation ellipsis extent will reach Figure floor frame girders given line given number gnomonic projection half hypothenuse inches instrument Invented and Drawn jack-rafters Join joists length in feet limb line of chords line of numbers line of sines Lith 26 Spruce meridian method of finding multiplied nail number of degrees number of equal pencil perpendicular plane Plate polygon primary divisions proportional purlin quadrant quarter girt quotient radius regular polygons represent right angles right line roof rule Rule.-Multiply screw secants sector Shows the method slider sliding soffit square root straight line stroke subdivision tangents thickness transverse distance triangle truss vernier scale weight