The Description and Use of the Sliding Rule, in Arithmetic, and in the Mensuration of Surfaces and Solids: Also, the Description of the Ship Carpenter's Sliding Rule, and Its Use Applied to the Construction of Masts, Yards, &c. Together with the Description and Use of the Guaging Rule, Gauging Rod, & Ullage Rule |
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21 inches 30 inches angle beer gallons bowsprit breadth and thickness bung and head bung diameter cask circle cone content in cubic content in feet cube root cubic feet cylindroid decimal divided divisor EXAMPLES extreme breadth figures find the content find the solid finding the ullage fore frustum given number Given the diameter Given the length head diameter inscribed square keel laid length in feet Let the length line of numbers logarithm malt bushels marked 10 Sqr masts mean proportional measure Method of finding middle line multiplied nearly number of cubic oppo opposite to 12 perpendicular height principal division PROBLEM PROBLEM quired quotient radius regular polygon required its solid required the content required the number required the solid scale of inches SECTION Set 9 Sliding Rule solid content sphere square root square yards superficial content top-mast triple line TWELVE SQUARE LINES ULLAGE RULE wet inches wine gallons
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Page 64 - RULE. from half the sum of the three sides, subtract each side separately; multiply the half sum and the three remainders together, and the square root of the product will be the area required.
Page 84 - Regular or platonic bodies, are comprehended by like, equal, and regular plane figures, and whose solid angles are all equal.
Page 30 - Multiply the square root of half the sum of the squares of the two axes by *, and the product will be nearly = the circumference. Ex. Taking the same example as before, we hare /24' + IT \/ = — X 3,14159 = 66,6433= the circumference nearly.
Page 43 - To find the side of a square, equal in area to a circle whose diameter or circumference is given, — RULE.
Page 82 - Threefifths of the Breadth, the Remainder shall be esteemed the just Length of the Keel to find the Tonnage, — and the Breadth shall be taken from the Outside of the outside Plank in the broadest Part of the...
Page 129 - ... the sum, rejecting 10 from the index, will be the logarithm of the tonnage required.