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Excerpt from The Guide to Railway Masonry: Containing a Complete Treatise on the Oblique Arch, in Four Parts; Part I. Containing All the Practical Geometry Requisite in the Construction of Arches in General
IN this undertaking, the general reader is not supposed to be much acquainted with scientific researches, but to have some knowledge of descriptive geometry; the author, therefore, before he could venture to explain the principles Of the Oblique arch, and to reduce them to practice, has been induced to lay before his readers those problems which would afterwards be required, and also that they may always be ready for the use of the working mason or inspector, without being under the necessity of having recourse to other publications. In this treatise, the geometrical constructions and the calculations are quite independent Of each other. Each system is complete of itself, so that the reader who is not acquainted with.
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