A Rudimentary Treatise on Land and Engineering Surveying, with all the modern improvements ... With illustrationsVirtue brothers & Company, 1865 - 232 pages |
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ABCD accuracy acres adjustment ÆSCHYLUS AMEN CORNER axis beam compasses breadth bubble centre chains common correct cross sections cubic yards cutting depths direction divided division draw embankment equal error example feet field book figure finding the contents fore sights formation level formula Gentleman's Diary given ground half width height inches instrument intersection laid Lay the ruler length level book limb main lines mark measured method mile move it parallel NOTE object offsets parallax parallel ruler perpendicular position Prob PROBLEM protractor quality lines quantity of land radii radius railway curves Rankine's method right angles river road scale screw serpentine curve shewn shews sine spirit level square links staff stations straight fence surface survey surveyors Table taken tangent telescope theodolite tion Tithe Commissioners trapezium triangle trigonometry tube tunnel vernier vernier scale vertical viaduct whence