The Mechanic's Companion: Or, the Elements and Practice of Carpentry, Joinery, Bricklaying, Masonry, Slating, Plastering, Painting, Smithing, and Turning, Comprehending the Latest Improvements and Containing a Full Description of the Tools Belonging to Each Branch of Business; with Copious Directions for Their Use. And an Explanation of the Terms Used in Each Art; Also an Introduction to Practical GeometryJames Locker, 1832 - 333 Seiten |
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Seite 14 - The Measure of an angle, is an arc of any circle contained between the two lines which form that angle, the angular point being the centre ; and it is estimated by the number of degrees contained in that arc.
Seite 77 - ... the owner shall be liable to the amount that would have been due at the time of his receiving the account of such work, in the same manner as if no such payment had been made.
Seite 74 - Nothing contained in this act, shall be construed to apply to any ship or vessel of war in the service of the United States, or of any foreign government, while lying distant three hundred yards or upwards from the wharves, piers or slips of the said city.
Seite 295 - Chisels are of various sizes, from a quarter of an inch to two inches and a half: these are convenient in running mouldings and cleaning the bottoms of grooves.
Seite 285 - WELDING is the intimate union produced between the surfaces of two malleable metals, when heated almost to fusion and hammered. This union is so strong that when two bars of metal are properly welded, the place of junction is as strong, relatively to its thickness, as any other part of the bar. Only two of the old metals are capable of firm union by welding, namely, platina and iron. The same property belongs to the newly-discovered metals potassium and sodium.
Seite 170 - ... lenses Middle-ground is a term used, not to express the middle of a picture, but generally perspectively so ; — sometimes it is the highest part of a picture, and sometimes the second degree of shade. Pictures are divided into three parts : fore-ground, middle-ground, and back-ground. Middle-rail, the rail of a door which is upon a level with the hand when hanging freely : the lock of the door is generally fixed in this rail Midship signifies the middle of a ship Midship-bend, the broadest...
Seite 75 - ... may be sued for and recovered, with costs of suit, in any court of record within this state, by the fire department of the city of New York, in their own name and for their own use.
Seite 14 - A sector is any part of a circle bounded by an arc and two radii, drawn to its extremities, as F. 50. A quadrant, or quarter of a circle, is a sector, having a quarter of the circumference for its arc, and the two radii are perpendicular to each other, as G.
Seite 73 - Justices, shall afford a reasonable cause of suspicion, that any gunpowder has been brought, or is kept, within the said City, or in...
Seite 14 - The radius of a circle is a right line drawn from the centre to the circumference, ab, at A.