The American Builder's General Price Book and Estimator: To Elucidate the Principles of Ascertaining the Correct Value of Every Description of Artificer's Work Required in Building, from the Prime Cost of Materials and Labor, in Any Part of New England, Deduced from Extensive Experience in the Art of Building |
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Page 5 - From 8 times the chord of half the arc, subtract the chord of the whole arc ; one-third of the remainder will be the length of the arc nearly.
Page 75 - And every person who shall offend in manner aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay to the commonwealth, for each and every such offence, a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than ten dollars, to be recovered...
Page 5 - To find the Circumference of a Circle, when the Diameter is given ; or the Diameter, when the Circumference is given. RULE. — Multiply the diameter by 3.1416...
Page 78 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so much of the act to which this is a supplement, as relates to ihe township of Corydon, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Page 6 - So IS THE AREA OF THE CIRCLE, TO THE AREA OF THE SECTOR.
Page 4 - Gallon, containing Ten pounds Avoirdupois weight of distilled water weighed in air, at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches...
Page 6 - Pyramid. Rule. — Multiply the circumference of the base by the slant height or" length of the side, and half the product will be the surface.
Page 5 - Multiply the square of the diameter by .7854, or the square of the circumference by .07958.
Page 4 - English act already alluded to, for establishing uniform measures throughout the realm, and called the act of uniformity, took effect Jan. 1, 182C. The system thus established is called the imperial system. Its rationale is as follows : Take a pendulum which will vibrate seconds in London, on a level of the sea, in a vacuum ; divide all that part thereof which lies between the axis of suspension and the centre of oscillation into 391,393 equal parts ; then will 10,000 of those parts be an imperial...
Page 72 - Scale: 4 farthings (far.) = 1 penny (d.); 12 pence = 1 shilling (s.) ; 20 shillings = 1 pound (£). TABLE OF CURRENCY.