Enclosure: Drawings of Monticello Phaeton, 19 October 1805
Enclosure: Drawings of Monticello Phaeton
[on or before 19 Oct. 1805]
| Fig. | 1. shews the ensemble of the carriage. |
| 2. the ichnography of the main frame, in which the pieces a. b. c. d. e. are of wood as is also the interior frame f. f. f. f. | |
| 3. the front view of the fore axle, & of the gallows on which the iron plate g. Fig. 2. rests while from the shoulders at * Fig. 2. come two iron braces h. Fig. 1. meeting at the main pin i. Fig. 3. binding the main frame and avant-train firmly together. | |
| 4. is merely to shew the foresprings, & Fig. 5. the hind-springs by which the seat & it’s frame f. is suspended to the main frame in it’s postion1 Fig. 2. the fore springs being in the line of direction of the carriage, & the hind springs at right angles with it. | |
| in Fig. 1. & 4. are two cross bars k. l. which were in the original design from which this is copied: but in the execution they were omitted, as worse than useless, & the Semicircular springs were consequently enlarged. | |
| the seat from m. Fig. 4. upwards is of wood. the fine lines between m. & f. are flat steel springs | |
| the marks x Fig. 1. shew the centers from which the various portions of circles are drawn. | |
| the scale is half an English inch to each red line: consequently every dimension may be readily counted, and the workman will only have to prepare drawing boards of full size and counting off the parts from these draughts, give them their full size on his board. | |
| an ingenious artist will readily imagine all the details not particularised here. |
MS (ViU); entirely in TJ’s hand; 3 p., with figure 1 on first page, figures 2 and 3 on second, and figures 4 and 5 and text on third.
1. Thus in MS.