Essentials of Mechanical Drafting: Elements, Principles, and Methods, with Specific Applications in Working Drawings of Furniture, Machine, and Sheet Metal Construction; a Manual for Students, Arranged for Reference and Study in Connection with Courses in Manual Training, Industrial, High, and Technical Schools

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Milton Bradley Company, 1917 - Mechanical drawing - 132 pages
 

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Page 6 - A cylinder is conceived to be generated by the revolution of a rectangle about one of its sides as an axis.
Page 3 - A five-sided polygon is called a pentagon; one of six sides, a hexagon; of seven, a heptagon ; of eight, an octagon ; of nine, a nonagon ; of ten, a decagon ; etc.
Page 7 - In any proportion, the product of the extremes equals the product of the means.
Page 5 - A truncated pyramid is the portion of a pyramid included between the base and a plane not parallel to the base.
Page 7 - Since the area of a square is equal to the square of one of its sides, a side may be found by extracting the square root of the area.
Page 6 - A sphere may be generated by the revolution of a semi-circle about its diameter as an axis.
Page 5 - An oblique prism is a prism whose lateral edges are not perpendicular to the planes of the bases.
Page 7 - ... the area of the polygon is equal to the sum of the areas of the triangles; hence, 415.
Page 7 - V3 and -^ equal irrational numbers. '»" 224. DBF. The ratio of two quantities of the same kind is the quotient of their numerical measures expressed in terms of the same unit. Thus, the ratio of two quantities, a and 6, is - or a •*• 6 ; the ratio of 6 four yards and two yards is f , or 2.
Page 6 - A right circular cone may be generated by the revolution of a right triangle about one of its sides as an axis.

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