The Workman's Manual of Engineering DrawingLockwood & Company, 1875 - 280 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
angle of light applied Architect breadth Bridge C.E. Illustrated centre line Chapter CHARLES TOMLINSON circle circumference cloth boards colour compasses cone corresponding curve line passing cylinder diagram diameter distance draw a vertical draw the diagonal draw the horizontal draw the lines draw the relative edge Edition electrum elevation ellipse end view engineering drawings Engravings flange front view gamboge Girders Grammar half height HENRY LAW horizontal lines Humber's inches Indian ink Iron length LUDGATE HILL numerous Illustrations object Outfall Sewer Ovolo paper parallel pencil plane Plates Practical project the shadow projection of shadow Prussian blue radius Railway RALPH TATE relative angle right angles Rudimentary Treatise S. P. WOODWARD scale SCOTT BURN screw semicircle set square shade lines shadow required sheet shown side view sponge square Steam straight line straight-edge surface T-square thick tical tint Triglot Dictionary Woodcuts
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Page 5 - MINING TOOLS, ATLAS of Engravings to Illustrate the above, containing 235 Illustrations of Mining Tools, drawn to Scale. 4to.
Page 5 - Each table is printed on a small card, which, being placed on the theodolite, leaves the hands free to manipulate the instrument — no small advantage as regards the rapidity of work.
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Page 5 - DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY, an Elementary Treatise on; with a Theory of Shadows and of Perspective, extracted from the French of G. MONGE. To which is added, a description of the Principles and Practice of Isometrical Projection ; the whole being intended as an introduction to the Application of Descriptive Geometry to various branches of the Arts.
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