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The text provides a comprehensive overview of various components and terminologies associated with stairs, including stringers, winders, trim, curtail steps, balustrades, handrails, volutes, turnouts, goosenecks, rosettes, easings, core rails, balusters, newels, finials, baserails, and fillets. Here are the key points summarized: 1. **Stringers**: Horizontal beams that support treads and risers on open-sided stairs. 2. **Winders**: Steps with narrower tread sides to create a turning motion for circular or spiral stairways. 3. **Trim**: Various moldings used for decoration and in some instances to support stairway elements, such as the nosing overhang supported by scotia (quarter-round). 4. **Curtail Step**: A decorative step usually at the bottom of the staircase that houses the volute and newel turning for a continuous handrail. 5. **Balustrade**: The system consisting of railings and balusters preventing people from falling over the edge of stairs or platforms. 6. **Handrails, Railings, Banisters**: - The angled member for handholding, with different configurations based on the number of sides of the staircase being open. - Sometimes just used to mean the handrail, or a combination including balusters or newels, but often more inclusively all components together. 7. **Volute**: A curved inward element at the bullnose step end resembling a spiral. 8. **Turnout**: A quarter-turn rounded end to the handrail instead of a complete volute spiral. 9. **Gooseneck**: The vertical section that joins two horizontal rail sections on different levels, like the balcony or landing to the stair level handrail. 10. **Rosette**: Trimmed end at where the handrail meets a wall when using a half-newel is not possible. 11. **Easings**: Parts of the railing near stairs with a curve in both cases where there's flare and a horizontal part near landings or on floors with no change level but to keep people away from stairs edges while exiting. Starting easing goes downward at stair's start while ending (or "over") easings move toward horizontal at its end, as the top handrail ends. 12. **Core Rail**: Often found in wooden handrails, which use a metal core for additional strength and resistance to deflection, particularly important when there are turns or curved sections against wood grain. 13. **Balusters (Spindles, Guards)**: The vertical elements holding up the horizontal rails and handrail systems on stairs, platforms, etc., often requiring two per tread except at treads without space in between due to decorations like rosettes or wall endings. 14. **Newels**: Structural components used for a solid support of balustrade by attaching directly onto floor joists, either as the anchor point for continuous handrails on flights going up multiple levels and down which form part systems along walls but sometimes extend past these areas where you'll find what we called “finial.” 15. **Finials**: Decorative tops placed at newel posts, typically at end balustrade elements near their final landing before it joins the wall to hide a transition without using newel drops in design solutions when building staircase parts without complete landings in some spaces like halls within apartments having stairs running across these corridors directly down into living spaces where floorboards connect seamlessly through these structures underneath handrail bases supported strongly under each flight throughout whole level changes found inside many residential settings nowadays. For post-to-post systems, which are also called continuous over-the-post or "through-the-newel", newels project above the rail. For this kind of railing to be built in certain ways including going across levels, they will require at least two tandem caps covering more than one location since they have so many locations where you cannot just glue anything directly together due simply space issues such lack enough flatness available especially when going around any post anywhere inside corners between flights within higher ones etc. There are multiple architectural techniques for making curved staircases but perhaps the oldest recorded examples would date back around 4 centuries BCE with evidence discovered in an ancient Greek Temple A, part of a larger site named Selinunte, found located on island called Sicily near its western shore opposite Carthaginian held lands that bordered present day Italy across the Mediterranean Sea where several hundred BC construction works were performed throughout southern Europe and North Africa. Another older system besides "over-the-newel" has historically been used: a continuous curve or "through newel". The key to these classic styles lies within precise math calculations allowing curved rail sections and other related components which would otherwise cause issues when laid together forming spiral staircases in particular. These classical solutions include concepts developed initially during late 18th century period such as described tangent approach from architect named Peter Nicholson but can still see applications today due preservation focus across world wide building cultures maintained mainly within more upscale construction practices worldwide although costlier upfront initial prices often justified based longevity benefits seen across lengthy life expectancy such elements possess especially important aspects surrounding beauty aesthetics architectural styles historical significance maintained carefully throughout human civilizations time line passed until this day still influence contemporary designs significantly beyond original functions merely safety protection originally envisioned.