A Rudimentary Treatise on Land and Engineering Surveying, with all the modern improvements ... With illustrationsVirtue brothers & Company, 1865 - 232 pages |
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Page vii
... Construction of Railways from the non - adop- tion of Curves , from improperly laying out Gradients , Exactions of Landowners , & c . Remarks on the Invention of the Methods of laying out Railway Curves on the ground - 177 179 CHAPTER ...
... Construction of Railways from the non - adop- tion of Curves , from improperly laying out Gradients , Exactions of Landowners , & c . Remarks on the Invention of the Methods of laying out Railway Curves on the ground - 177 179 CHAPTER ...
Page xi
... constructions of compound and serpentine curves being here omitted , as being seldom used by practical men . See Remarks on the Invention of the Method of laying out Railway Curves , page 179 . In CHAPTER III . the methods of setting ...
... constructions of compound and serpentine curves being here omitted , as being seldom used by practical men . See Remarks on the Invention of the Method of laying out Railway Curves , page 179 . In CHAPTER III . the methods of setting ...
Page xii
... constructions , which the late general extension of railways has called into existence in this kingdom . From the preceding analysis of the contents of this work , as well as from an inspection of its several details , and a comparison ...
... constructions , which the late general extension of railways has called into existence in this kingdom . From the preceding analysis of the contents of this work , as well as from an inspection of its several details , and a comparison ...
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... construction of the plan , when the di- mensions are to be measured therefrom with the scale . The scale should never be more than three chains to an inch , for when the parts of a plan are large , the dimensions may be taken with ...
... construction of the plan , when the di- mensions are to be measured therefrom with the scale . The scale should never be more than three chains to an inch , for when the parts of a plan are large , the dimensions may be taken with ...
Page 17
... CONSTRUCTION . From a scale of equal parts , or plotting scale , lay off the base A B , = 1257 links ; on which take A D , = 625 links ; at I ) erect the perpendicular D C , which make = 628 links ; join AC , CB , then ABC is the plan ...
... CONSTRUCTION . From a scale of equal parts , or plotting scale , lay off the base A B , = 1257 links ; on which take A D , = 625 links ; at I ) erect the perpendicular D C , which make = 628 links ; join AC , CB , then ABC is the plan ...
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