The American House Carpenter A Treatise On The Art Of Building And The Strength Of Materials

Author : R. G. Hatfield
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ISBN 13 : 9781332352999
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The American House-Carpenter written by R. G. Hatfield and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American House-Carpenter: A Treatise on the Art of Building, and the Strength of Materials Art. 1. - A knowledge of the properties and principles of lines can best be acquired by practice. Although the various problems throughout this work may be understood by inspection, yet they will be impressed upon the mind with much greater force, if they are actually performed with pencil and paper by the student. Science is acquired by study - art by practice: he. therefore, who would have any thing more than a theoretical, (which must of necessity be a superficial, ) knowledge of Carpentry, will attend to the following directions, provide himself with the articles here specified, and perform all the operations described in the following pages. Many of the problems may appear, at the first reading, somewhat confused and intricate; but by making one line at a time, according to the explanations, the student will not only succeed in copying the figures correctly, but by ordinary attention will learn the principles upon which they are based, and thus be able to make them available in any unexpected case to which they may apply. 2. - The following articles are necessary for drawing, viz: a drawing-board, paper, drawing-pins or mouth-glue, a sponge, a T-square, a set-square, two straight-edges, or flat rulers, a lead pencil, a piece of india-rubber, a cake of india-ink, a set of drawing-instruments, and a scale of equal parts. 3. - The size of the drawing-board must be regulated according to the size of the drawings which are to be made upon it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.