Download or read book The Carpenter's and Builder's Assistant, and Wood Worker's Guide (Classic Reprint) written by Lucius D. Gould and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Carpenter's and Builder's Assistant, and Wood Worker's Guide Together with these rules, the author also 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, with a treatise on the adhesion of nails, screws, iron pins and glue. Also an easy system of stair railing for straight and platform stairs, which will enable' carpenters to finish and complete a dwelling without the assistance of a professional stair builder. And to all this is added a practical and mathematical demonstra tion of finding the circumference and squaring the circle when the diameter is given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.