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 arches axis beam compasses breadth bubble centre chains common correct cross sections cubic yards cutting datum line depth direction distance divided draw embankments equal error EXAMPLE feet field book figure finding the contents fore sights formation level formula Gentleman's Diary given gradient ground height horizontal inches instrument intersection laid Lay the ruler length level book main line mark measured mile move it parallel NOTE object offsets parallax parallel ruler perpendicular position Prob protractor quality lines quantity of land radii radius railway curves Rankine's method ratio right angles river river Ouse road scale screw serpentine curve shewn shews side sine slopes spirit level square links staff stations straight fence surface survey surveyors taken taking tangent telescope theodolite tion Tithe Commissioners trapezium triangle tube tunnel vernier vernier scale vertical viaduct whence
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Page 8 - Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides.