Remarks on Engineers' Surveying InstrumentsThe Company, 1888 |
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accuracy accurate adjustment axis Beam Compass brass Brightly Centennial chain Civil Engineers clamp Coast Survey Compass cross hairs cross-wires defects diameter distance edition Engineer's Transit error extra feet long field instruments foot Franklin Institute furnished grade graduations Haupt Heller & Brightly horizontal limb horizontal strain improved inches long instru Leveling Instrument leveling screws line of collimation lines from bottom lines from top load long chord magnetic needle Magnetic Variation magnifying ments meridian Messrs method micrometer Mining Engineers MINING TRANSIT minutes of arc Needle Point object glass oblique ordinary Transit paper Philadelphia Plane Table plumb-bob PLUMMET LAMP precisely Prof Protractor Radius Railroad right angles ring side sights Sine slide spherical aberration Stadia Steel Tape Measure surveyor Surveyor's Compass tangent screw Tape Measure Transit Telescope TRAUTWINE tripod head truss tube Tunnel Transit United vernier vertical arc vertical strains weight wire
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