Modern buildings : their planning, construction and equipment (1905)
Middleton, G. A. T. (George Alexander Thomas) · London : Caxton Publishing Company, Limited · leaf 179
curves and hand-rail, as it is all across the grain, but it serves as a parts may be easily set out and worked from the solid. model to illustrate the principle, the object now being It is when hand-rails have to be fitted to geometrical to obtain a rail of similar form, but with the grain stairs… … occurs, especially when balanced winders are used, space will only permit of a brief description ol one, that the line connecting up the nosing line of the that known as the “Square cut and Tangent,” as upper and lower straight portions of the hand-rail will being perhaps the most general in use,…
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