Stair-building and the Steel Square
by Fred T. Hodgson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Williams, Morris
- Title
- Stair-building and the steel square : A manual of practical instruction in the art of stair-building and hand-railing, and the manifold uses of the steel square
- Credits
- Produced by Charlene Taylor, Paul Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TH: Technology: Building construction
- Subject
- Stair building
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 61150
- Release Date
- January 11, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.STAIR-BUILDING AND THE STEEL SQUARE
- 2.PART I STAIR-BUILDING — Definitions. — Setting Out Stairs. — Pitch-Board. — Well-Hole. — Laying Out. — Open-Newel Stairs. — Stairs with Curved Turns. — GEOMETRICAL STAIRWAYS AND HAND-RAILING — Wreaths. — Tangent System. — Bevels to Square the Wreaths. — How to Put the Curves on the Face-Mould. — Arrangement of Risers in and around Well-Hole.
- 3.PART II THE STEEL SQUARE — Introductory. — To Find the Miter and Length of Side for any Polygon, with the Steel Square. — The Steel Square as Applied in Roof Framing. — Heel Cut of Common Rafter. — Hips. — How to Treat the Heel Cut of Hips and Valleys.
- 4.INDEX
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