The Carpenter S And Builder S Assistant

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Excerpt from The Carpenter's and Builder's Assistant, and Wood Worker's Guide Several years have elapsed since I first published the House Carpenter's Assistant, which met with a ready sale of some seventeen hundred copies, but in consequence of the death of the publisher the work is now out of print. The object of the author is to revise the former work by omitting the treaties on mathematical instruments, to make room for additional matter that had been overlooked in the former work, in order to furnish house carpenters and builders with a new and easy system of lines founded on geometrical principles for framing the most difficult roofs; for cutting every description of joints and for finding the sections of angular pieces at any point from a horizontal to a perpendicular, so that their sides shall be in the plane of the sides they are connected with; for finding the form of the raking mould, for a gable, to intersect with the horizontal mould at any angle diverging from a straight line; the mitreing of circular mouldings; the relative sizes of timbers framed to support a given weight: to the mitreing of planes oblique to the base at any angle. Together with these rules, the author also presents tables of the weight and cohesive strength of the different materials used in the construction of buildings as well as the weight required to crush said materials, with a treatise on the adhesion of nails, screws, iron pins and glue. Also an easy system of stair railing for straight and platform stairs, which will enable carpenters to finish and complete a dwelling without the assistance of a professional stair builder. And to all this is added a practical and mathematical demonstration of finding the circumference and squaring the circle when the diameter is given. 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.

Excerpt from The Carpenter's and Builder's Assistant, and Wood Worker's Guide Together with these rules, the author also presents tables of the weight and cohesive strength of the different materials used in the construction of buildings as well as the weight required to crush said materials, with a treatise on the adhesion of nails, screws, iron pins and glue. Also an easy system of stair railing for straight and platform stairs, which will enable' carpenters to finish and complete a dwelling without the assistance of a professional stair builder. And to all this is added a practical and mathematical demonstra tion of finding the circumference and squaring the circle when the diameter is given. 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.

Excerpt from Carpenter's and Builder's Assistant, and Wood Worker's Guide The experience of workmen generally will testify that. Books have, as yet, furnished them but small assistance in the theory and art of construction. The object of the author in publishing this work, is to furnish them with rules for finding sections of pieces placed in any position; for cutting every description of joints; for finding the form of the raking mould at any point divergent from the straight line for springing and bending mouldings for mitering circular mouldings, and planes oblique to the base at any angle; and an easy system of building stairs and railing for straight and platform stairs. And eight plates containing steel square problems. Together with these rules, the author presents tables of the weight, and cohesive strength of the different materials used in the construction of buildings, as well as the weight required to crush said materials a treatise on the adhesion of nails, screws, iron pins and glue; and a geometrical and mathematical demonstra tion for finding the circumference, and squaring the circle. There can be but little doubt that a work of this kind is needed by Architects and Builders, and especially by Carpenters and Wood-workers, who are inexperienced in the different kinds of labor which they are called upon to perform. 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.