Category: Engineering & Technology
GEOMETRY.—Straight Lines.—Curved Lines.—Solids.—Compound Lines.—Parallel Lines—Oblique or Converging Lines.—Plane Figures.—Angles.—Right Angles.—Acute Angles.—Obtuse Angles.—Right-angled Triangles.—Quadrilateral Figures.—Parallelograms.—Rectangles.—Squares.—Rhomboids.— Trapezi...
GEOMETRY.—Straight Lines.—Curved Lines.—Solids.—Compound Lines.—Parallel Lines—Oblique or Converging Lines.—Plane Figures.—Angles.—Right Angles.—Acute Angles.—Obtuse Angles.—Rig...
2. PART II.ARCHES, CENTRES.—Window and Door Heads.—Semi-circular Arch—Segmental Arches.—Stilted Arches.—Horseshoe Arch.—Lancet Arch.—Equilateral Arch.—Gothic Tracery.—Wheel-Windows.—Equila...
3. PART III.ROOFS.—Saddle Roof.—Lean-to or Shed Roof.—Simple Hip-Roof.—Pyramidal Roof.—Theoretical Roof.—Roof with Straining Beam.—Gothic Roof.—Hammer-Beam Roofs.—Curved Principal Roofs.—Ro...
4. Part IV.5. PART V.THE MITERING AND ADJUSTING OF MOULDINGS.—Mitering of Spring Mouldings.—Preparing the Mitre-box for Cutting Spring Mouldings.—Rules for Cutting Mouldings with Diagrams.—Mitre-box...
6. PART VI.SASHES AND SKYLIGHTS.—Raised Skylights.—Skylights with Hips.—Octagon Skylights with Segmental Ribs.—Angle-bars, with Rules and Diagrams, showing how to obtain the Angles, Forms,...
7. PART VII.MOULDINGS.—Angle Brackets.—Corner Coves.—Enlarging and Reducing Mouldings.—Irregular Mouldings.—Raking Mouldings, with Rules for Obtaining.—Mouldings for Plinths and Capitals of...
8. PART VIII.JOINERY.—Dovetailing.—Common Dovetailing.—Lapped Dovetailing.—Blind Dovetailing.—Square Dovetailing.—Splay Dovetailing.—Regular and Irregular Dovetailing.—Lines and Cuts for Hop...
9. PART IX.10. PART X.JOINTS AND STRAPS.—Mortise and Tenon Joints.—Toggle Joints.—Hook Joints.—Tongue Joint.—Lap Splice.—Scarfing.—Wedge Joints.—King-bolts.—Straps, Iron Ties, Sockets, Bearing-plates...
11. PART XI.HINGING AND SWING JOINTS.—Door Hinging.—Centre-pin Hinging.—Blind Hinging.—Folding Hinging.—Knuckle Hinging.—Pew Hinging.—Window Hinging.—Half-turn Hinge.—Full-turn Hinge.—Back...
12. PART XII.USEFUL RULES AND TABLES.—Hints on the Construction of Centres.—Rules for Estimating.—Form of Estimate.—Items for Estimating.—Remarks on Fences.—Nails: sizes, weights, lengths an...
13. PART I.History of the Saw.—Saws of the Greeks.—Invention of the First Saws.—Egyptian Bronze Saws in the British Museum.—Antiquity of Saws.—Mention of Saws in Holy Writ.—Saws of the Sto...
14. PART II.Philosophy of the Cutting Qualities of Saw-Teeth.—The “Why and Wherefore” of the Cutting Pitch and Angles of Rip-Saw Teeth.—The Round Gullet-Tooth.—Chisel-Teeth and their Action...
15. PART III.How to Use Hand-Saws.—How to Saw Well and Easily.—Hints for Sawing Straight.—Rules for New Beginners.—French. German and American Workmen.—Saws Filed to Work on the Pull-Stroke....
16. PART IV.Filing and Setting Hand-Saws.—The Qualities Required to make a Good Filer.—Rules in some Old-time Joiner Shops.—Careless Filing and its Consequences.—Clamping Saws for Filing.—T...
17. PART V.Miscellaneous Saws; their Uses, How to Care for Them, and How to Use Them.—The =M= Tooth, Teeth that Cut Both Ways, Crenate Teeth, Brier Teeth, Gullet Teeth, Parrot-bill Teeth,...
18. PART VI.Remarks on Saws, Files, Sets, and other Appliances.—Saw-Files; what Constitutes a Good One, and How to Select.—Different Qualities of Saw-Files, and How to Know the Various Grad...
19. PART VII.Notes and Memoranda.—Saw-Gauges.-Comb-Saw Gauges.—Saw-Guides. Mitre-Boxes.—Circular _vs._ Band-Saws.—Emery Sharpeners.—Small Saws.—Machine-Saws.—Narrow Saws.—Brazing Band-Saws.—...