Abstract
The elementary properties of generators of a ruled surface, and the existence of a line of striction when the surface is skew, are well known to readers of this journal. We propose to show that many of these properties do not belong exclusively to ruled surfaces; but that a family of curves on any surface possesses a line of striction and a focal curve or envelope, though these are not always real. When the surface is developable, and the “curves” are the generators of one system, the focal curve is the edge of regression. We shall also see that the properties to be established for a family of curves on a surface are analogous to some of the leading properties of congruences of curves in space, the line of striction corresponding to the surface of striction or orthocentric surface, and the focal curve to the focal surface of the latter.
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