Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Elementary Principles of Graphic Statics The following chapters are placed before students of Building Construction, Applied Mechanics, and Machine Construction and Drawing, in the hope that they may be of service to those who desire aid in the study of the Statics branch of these subjects. It should be stated that, in the chapter on Graphic Arithmetic, only such matter has been introduced as. 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.