 | George Adams - 1813 - 576 pages
...hypothenuse to consist of 10O equal parts ; consequently, it gives by inspection the number of links to be deducted from each chain's length, in measuring up or down any ascent or descent, in order to reduce it to a true horizontal distance, similar to those on King's... | |
 | Frederick Walter Simms - 1834 - 134 pages
...the difference between the hypotenuse and base of a right-angled triangle, or, 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. The level, which is shown under and parallel... | |
 | William Galbraith - 1842 - 216 pages
...right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse being 100, or, which comes to the same thing, 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. If the angle of elevation and depression... | |
 | Anthony Nesbit - 1847 - 488 pages
...depression. The other side of the vertical arc contains a line of divisions, showing the number of links to be deducted from each chain's length, in measuring up or down any ascent or descent, in order to reduce it to a true horizontal line, according to the directions... | |
 | Benjamin Pike - 1848 - 356 pages
...the difference between the hypothenuse and base of a right-angled triangle, or 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. The level, which is shown under and parallel... | |
 | Benjamin Pike (Jr.) - 1848 - 482 pages
...the difference between the hypothenuse and base of a right-angled triangle, or 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. The level, which is shown under and parallel... | |
 | John Ainslie - 1849 - 586 pages
...right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse being 100, or, which comes to the same thing, 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. If the angle of elevation and depression... | |
 | Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - 1851 - 826 pages
...the difference between the hypothenuse and base of a right-angled triangle, or, 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. The level, which is shown under and parallel... | |
 | William Davis Haskoll - 1868 - 252 pages
...difference between the hypothenum and base of a right angled triangle ; this gives the number of looks to be deducted from each chain's length, in measuring up or down any inclined plane, to reduce it to the horizontal measure. Such, at least, is the description and... | |
 | William Davis Haskoll - 1886 - 354 pages
...difference between the hypothenuse and base of a right angled triangle ; this gives the number of links to be deducted from each chain's length, in measuring up or down any inclined plane, to reduce it to the horizontal measure. Such, at least, is the description and... | |
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... 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. 