NOW READY.
Second and Enlarged Edition.
The Steel Square
AND ITS USES.
By FRED. T. HODGSON.
This is the only work on The Steel Square and Its Uses ever published. It is Thorough, Exhaustive, Clear, and Easily Understood. Confounding terms and scientific phrases have been religiously avoided where possible, and everything in the book has been made so plain that a boy twelve years of age, possessing ordinary intelligence, can understand it from end to end.
The New Edition is Illustrated with over Seventy-five Wood-cuts, showing how the Square may be used for solving almost every problem in the whole Art of Carpentry.
The following synopsis of the contents of the work will give some idea of its character and scope.
—History of the “Square.”—Description, with Explanation of the Rules, Figures, Scales, and Divisions shown on good Squares.
—Brace Rules, Octagonal Scale, Board, Plank and Scantling Rules, fully explained and described.
—How to lay out Rafters, Hips, Jack-Rafters, Purlins, Bevel Works, etc., etc.
—Backing for Hips, Lengths and Bevels of Valley Rafters. Laying out Stairs and Strings.
—How to describe Circles, Ellipses, Parabolas and other figures, with the Square.
—How to obtain Bevels for Hoppers and all kinds of Splayed Work and Spring Mouldings, by the Square.
—Bisecting Circles, Proportion of Circles, Division of Widths, Bisection of Angles, Diminishing Stiles, Centering Circles, etc., etc.
—Theoretical Rafters, Cuts for Mitre Boxes, Measurement of Surfaces, including Painting, Plastering, Shingling, Siding, Flooring, Rough Boarding, Tinning and Roofing.
—Rules for describing Octagons and Polygons of every description and how to find their angles and areas.
—Rules for finding the lengths of Rafters and Hips of Irregular Roofs, Cuts for Equal and Unequal Mitres, Trusses and Bevel Timber Work.
—The Development of Hip and Curved Roofs; Veranda Rafters, Straight and Curved; Hopper Cuts of all kinds, Angle Corner-pieces, Splayed Work for Gothic Heads, etc., etc., and many other things useful to the Operative Mechanic.
Handsomely Bound in Cloth with Gilt Title.
Price ONE DOLLAR.
INDUSTRIAL PUBLICATION COMPANY.
New York.
HINTS FOR PAINTERS,
DECORATORS,
AND PAPER-HANGERS.
BEING
A SELECTION OF USEFUL RULES, DATA, MEMORANDA, METHODS, AND SUGGESTIONS FOR HOUSE, SHIP AND FURNITURE PAINTING, PAPER-HANGING, GILDING, COLOR MIXING, AND OTHER MATTERS USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE TO PAINTERS AND DECORATORS.
Prepared with Special Reference to the Wants of Amateurs.
BY
AN OLD HAND.
NEW YORK:
THE INDUSTRIAL PUBLICATION COMPANY.
1882.