A Treatise on Military Surveying: Including Sketching in the Field, Plan-drawing, Levelling, Military Reconnoissance, Also a Particular Description of the Surveying Instruments Commonly Employed by Military Men, with Instructions for Using and Adjusting ThemW.H. Allen, 1847 - 344 pages |
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... rivers , roads , forests , & c.- distance is nothing : we see the country , twenty , fifty , a hundred miles off : we can estimate the com- parative heights of hills without having to bear in mind that the angle subtended by a mountain ...
... rivers , roads , forests , & c.- distance is nothing : we see the country , twenty , fifty , a hundred miles off : we can estimate the com- parative heights of hills without having to bear in mind that the angle subtended by a mountain ...
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... have a knowledge of the principles of plan - drawing . Certain details in a plan , as roads , rivers , houses , woods , & c . , are , at a glance , comprehended by every one ; but to distinguish the features of hills INTRODUCTION . XV.
... have a knowledge of the principles of plan - drawing . Certain details in a plan , as roads , rivers , houses , woods , & c . , are , at a glance , comprehended by every one ; but to distinguish the features of hills INTRODUCTION . XV.
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... the angle NCD = 60 ° = ECB . It may be as well to mention here , that when surveying a road , or river , & c . , with the compass , bearings need only be taken at every second station ; as will be PROTRACTING IN THE FIELD . 7.
... the angle NCD = 60 ° = ECB . It may be as well to mention here , that when surveying a road , or river , & c . , with the compass , bearings need only be taken at every second station ; as will be PROTRACTING IN THE FIELD . 7.
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... rivers , boundaries , and performing such work as is now generally termed traversing ; this method , however , of ... river . When he came to plot his numerous bearings , taken during a busy day , nothing could be made of the work ...
... rivers , boundaries , and performing such work as is now generally termed traversing ; this method , however , of ... river . When he came to plot his numerous bearings , taken during a busy day , nothing could be made of the work ...
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... 560- 20/10 River 470 2010 210 420 50 30 340 35 100 40 450 10 30 165 ° NW 3C 450 N 40 30 400 45 25 100 200 300 400 500 Scale of 200 Yards to an Inch 4 N PLATE VIII . TRAVERSING WITH THE THEODOLITE AND CHAIN . 27 Two staves 100.
... 560- 20/10 River 470 2010 210 420 50 30 340 35 100 40 450 10 30 165 ° NW 3C 450 N 40 30 400 45 25 100 200 300 400 500 Scale of 200 Yards to an Inch 4 N PLATE VIII . TRAVERSING WITH THE THEODOLITE AND CHAIN . 27 Two staves 100.
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Page 195 - ... but it may be made in a variety of ways, so as to revolve on any light portable stand. The tube, when required for use, is filled with water (coloured with lake or indigo), till it nearly reaches to the necks of the bottles, which are then corked for the convenience of carriage. On setting the stand tolerably level by the eye, these corks are both withdrawn, which must be done carefully and FRENCH REFLECTINQ-LEVEL.
Page 171 - THE first adjustment is that of the line of collimation; that is, to make the intersection of the cross wires coincide with the axis of the cylindrical rings on which the telescope turns : it is known to be correct, when...
Page 228 - SO'OO inches as the average height of the barometer at the level of the sea (which is however too much), the altitude of the upper station is at once obtained by inspection of Table I, correcting for temperature of the stratum of air traversed by table II.
Page 270 - ... reading off the arc; and half the difference of these numbers is the index error; additive when the reading on the arc of excess is greater than that on the limb, and subtractive when the contrary is the case. EXAMPLE. .
Page 173 - ... error must be corrected by turning the screw, B, and the other half by the two parallel plate-screws over which the telescope is placed. Next turn the telescope a quarter round, that it may lie over the other two screws, and make it level by moving them, and the adjustment will be complete. Before making observations with this instrument, the adjustments should be carefully examined and rectified, after which the screw B should never be touched ; the parallel plate-screws alone must be used for...
Page 145 - ... without any regard to thickness. This area, or the content of the plane figure, is estimated by the number of little squares that may be contained in it; the side of those little measuring squares being an inch, a foot, a yard, or any other fixed quantity.
Page 299 - What is the error of the best tables now in use ? hours, or one minute of space in two minutes of time. Therefore, if we make an error of one minute in observing the distance, we make an error of two minutes in time, or 30 miles of longitude at the equator. A single observation with the best...
Page 147 - ... in chains and decimals. Therefore, after the content is found, it will be in square links ; then cut off five of the figures on the right hand for decimals, and the rest will be acres. These decimals are then multiplied by 4 for roods, and the decimals of these again by 40 for perches.
Page 104 - ... the number of links to be deducted from each chain's length, in measuring up or down an inclined plane, to reduce it to the horizontal measure.