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 everpublished. It is Thorough, Exhaustive, Clear, and Easily Understood.Confounding terms and scientific phrases have been religiously avoidedwhere possible, and everything in the book has been made so plain thata boy twelve years of age, possessing ordinary intelligence, can understandit 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 problemin the whole Art of Carpentry.
The following synopsis of the contents of the work will give someidea of its character and scope.
—History of the “Square.”—Description,with Explanation of the Rules, Figures,Scales, and Divisions shown on goodSquares.
—Brace Rules, Octagonal Scale, Board,Plank and Scantling Rules, fully explainedand described.
—How to lay out Rafters, Hips, Jack-Rafters,Purlins, Bevel Works, etc., etc.
—Backing for Hips, Lengths and Bevelsof Valley Rafters. Laying out Stairs andStrings.
—How to describe Circles, Ellipses,Parabolas and other figures, with theSquare.
—How to obtain Bevels for Hoppersand all kinds of Splayed Work and SpringMouldings, by the Square.
—Bisecting Circles, Proportion of Circles,Division of Widths, Bisection ofAngles, Diminishing Stiles, CenteringCircles, etc., etc.
—Theoretical Rafters, Cuts for MitreBoxes, Measurement of Surfaces, includingPainting, Plastering, Shingling, Siding,Flooring, Rough Boarding, Tinning andRoofing.
—Rules for describing Octagons andPolygons of every description and howto find their angles and areas.
—Rules for finding the lengths of Raftersand Hips of Irregular Roofs, Cuts forEqual and Unequal Mitres, Trusses andBevel Timber Work.
—The Development of Hip and CurvedRoofs; Veranda Rafters, Straight andCurved; Hopper Cuts of all kinds, AngleCorner-pieces, Splayed Work for GothicHeads, etc., etc., and many other thingsuseful to the Operative Mechanic.
Handsomely Bound in Cloth with Gilt Title.
Price ONE DOLLAR.
INDUSTRIAL PUBLICATION COMPANY.
New York.
BEING
A SELECTION OF USEFUL RULES, DATA, MEMORANDA, METHODS,AND SUGGESTIONS FOR HOUSE, SHIP AND FURNITURE PAINTING,PAPER-HANGING, GILDING, COLOR MIXING, AND OTHERMATTERS USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE TO PAINTERSAND DECORATORS.
Prepared with Special Reference to the Wants of Amateurs.
BY
AN OLD HAND.
NEW YORK:
THE INDUSTRIAL PUBLICATION COMPANY.
1882.
This little work is intended to furnish the Practical House-Painter—theEvery-day Workman—with information sufficient toenable him to understand his business intelligently. One of itsobjects is to deal with the nature, characteristics, qualities, anddefects of the materials employed by the class of artisans for whomit is written; and to a limited extent this has b