A Rudimentary Treatise on Land and Engineering Surveying, with all the modern improvements ... With illustrationsVirtue brothers & Company, 1865 - 232 pages |
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... Ruler in reducing crooked fences to straight ones Surveying large Estates or Parishes PAGE 52 54 58 CHAPTER IV . DRAWING AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS . The Vernier Scale 62 Plotting extensive surveys from this Scale 63 The Beam Compasses ...
... Ruler in reducing crooked fences to straight ones Surveying large Estates or Parishes PAGE 52 54 58 CHAPTER IV . DRAWING AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS . The Vernier Scale 62 Plotting extensive surveys from this Scale 63 The Beam Compasses ...
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... Rulers or Mechanical Railway Curves · 158 · 158 ( 4. ) The Limit of Railway Curves · 159 Prob . I. To determine the Radius of a Railway Curve . Cases I. to IV . Prob . II . To lay out a Railway Curve on the Ground by the Common Method ...
... Rulers or Mechanical Railway Curves · 158 · 158 ( 4. ) The Limit of Railway Curves · 159 Prob . I. To determine the Radius of a Railway Curve . Cases I. to IV . Prob . II . To lay out a Railway Curve on the Ground by the Common Method ...
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... ruler . PROBLEM III . Through a given point r , to draw a straight line CD parallel to a given straight line A B. Am From any point n in the line AB , with the distance nr , describe the arc rm : -from centre r , with the same radius ...
... ruler . PROBLEM III . Through a given point r , to draw a straight line CD parallel to a given straight line A B. Am From any point n in the line AB , with the distance nr , describe the arc rm : -from centre r , with the same radius ...
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... rulers , usually about 12 inches long . Each ruler has scales of equal parts , decimally divided , placed on its edges , which are made sloping , so that the extremities of the strokes marking the divisions lie close to the paper . The ...
... rulers , usually about 12 inches long . Each ruler has scales of equal parts , decimally divided , placed on its edges , which are made sloping , so that the extremities of the strokes marking the divisions lie close to the paper . The ...
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... ruler of transparent horn , or by a silken thread stretched with a bow ; the ruler or thread being moved over the crooked fence , till it appear to the eye to enclose as much of the adjoining ground as is left out , a line is then drawn ...
... ruler of transparent horn , or by a silken thread stretched with a bow ; the ruler or thread being moved over the crooked fence , till it appear to the eye to enclose as much of the adjoining ground as is left out , a line is then drawn ...
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Page 3 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, &c.
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Page 240 - Gd. 108*. METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT AMENDMENT ACT, 1862 ; with Notes and Index. Is. 109. NUISANCES REMOVAL AND DISEASE PREVENTION ACT. Is. 110. RECENT LEGISLATIVE ACTS applying to Contractors, Merchants, and Tradesmen. Is.
Page 8 - Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides.