Mechanical Drawing

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John Wiley & sons, Incorporated, 1919 - Mechanical drawing - 232 pages
 

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Page 170 - AC should be, for this plate, 1^" long. Produce AC to B. From C as center, with a radius equal to CA, describe the semicircle A 128456 7 B, and divide it into as many equal parts as there are sides in the required polygon (in this case eight).
Page 168 - A with the same radius describe arc BD. From B with AC as radius cut arc BD in D. Draw CD. Line CD is parallel to AB. FIG. 23.
Page 41 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, etc.
Page 40 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The curve which bounds the circle is called the circumference Any portion of the circumference is called an arc.
Page 39 - A PLANE is a surface, such, that if any two of its points be joined by a straight line, such.
Page 170 - AB of the circle into as many equal parts as the polygon is to have sides. With the points A and B as centers and radius AB, describe arcs cutting each other at C.

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