A Rudimentary Treatise on Land and Engineering Surveying, with all the modern improvements ... With illustrationsVirtue brothers & Company, 1865 - 232 pages |
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... width of a river , which is too wide to be reached across by the chain ( a new method ) · Prob . V. Triangular Fields . - Methods of measuring and computing their areas . - Method of casting , & c . Prob . VI . Four - sided fields Prob ...
... width of a river , which is too wide to be reached across by the chain ( a new method ) · Prob . V. Triangular Fields . - Methods of measuring and computing their areas . - Method of casting , & c . Prob . VI . Four - sided fields Prob ...
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... WIDTHS OF RAILWAYS . Prob . I. To set out the width of a railway cutting , when the surface of the ground is laterally level , and at a given height above the formation level , the ratio of the slopes being given · Prob . II . The same ...
... WIDTHS OF RAILWAYS . Prob . I. To set out the width of a railway cutting , when the surface of the ground is laterally level , and at a given height above the formation level , the ratio of the slopes being given · Prob . II . The same ...
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... width of a large river . Problem VII . gives three methods of surveying fields of from five to seven sides , with only five chain lines , with examples of the numerous lines adopted in old methods ; and Problem IX . gives a method of ...
... width of a large river . Problem VII . gives three methods of surveying fields of from five to seven sides , with only five chain lines , with examples of the numerous lines adopted in old methods ; and Problem IX . gives a method of ...
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... widths of rail- way cuttings , on all varieties of sloping and undulating ground , are carried out chiefly by original formulæ , which are also given with their investigation , in the author's Railway Engineering . Mr. Simms also wrote ...
... widths of rail- way cuttings , on all varieties of sloping and undulating ground , are carried out chiefly by original formulæ , which are also given with their investigation , in the author's Railway Engineering . Mr. Simms also wrote ...
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... WIDTH OF A RIVER , WHICH IS TOO WIDE TO BE REACHED ACROSS BY THE CHAIN . Let A B be the chain line crossing a river , situated between o and p , a mark being fixed at p , on A B lay off on , nm , each equal 50 links , and with the ends ...
... WIDTH OF A RIVER , WHICH IS TOO WIDE TO BE REACHED ACROSS BY THE CHAIN . Let A B be the chain line crossing a river , situated between o and p , a mark being fixed at p , on A B lay off on , nm , each equal 50 links , and with the ends ...
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Page 8 - Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides.