What to read after Carpenter's and Builder's Assistant, and Wood Worker's Guide (Classic Reprint)?

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.

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