| John Fry Heather - 1849 - 202 pages
...the scale. Take off now, with the compasses, eleven of these subdi* Euc. bk. vi. prop. 4. visions, set the extent off backwards from the end of the first...subdivisions by a tenth part of a subdivision, or a hundredth part of a primary division. In our figure the distances between the primary divisions are... | |
| John F. Heather - Scientific apparatus and instruments - 1849 - 208 pages
...divided line to the strokes marking the primary divisions and the subdivisions, and number them 1,2, 3, &c., backwards from right to left. Then, since...subdivisions by a tenth part of a subdivision, or a hundredth part of a primary division. In our figure the distances between the primary divisions are... | |
| Thomas Baker - Railroads - 1850 - 244 pages
...for extensive surveys of every description. CHAPTER IV. DRAWING & SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS. THE TERNIER SCALE. The nature of this scale will be best understood...subdivisions by a tenth part of a subdivision, or a hundredth part of a primary division. In our figure the distances between the primary divisions are... | |
| Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - Surveying - 1851 - 826 pages
...from the left hand towards the right throughout the whole extent of the scale. T it 1 T Take off now, with the compasses, eleven of these subdivisions,...subdivisions by a tenth part of a subdivision, or a hundredth part of a primary division. In our figure the distances between the primary divisions are... | |
| John Fry Heather - Astronomical instruments - 1851 - 208 pages
...divided line to the strokes marking the primary divisions and the subdivisions, and number them ] , 2, 3, &c., backwards from right to left. Then, since...subdivisions by a tenth part of a subdivision, or a hundredth part of a primary division. In our figure the distances between the primary divisions are... | |
| Lucius D. Gould - Carpentry - 1853 - 234 pages
...to the strokes marking the primary divisions and the subdivisions, and number them 1, 2, 3, <fec., backwards from right to left. Then, since the extent...subdivisions by a tenth part of a subdivision, or a hundredth part of a primary division. In our figure the distances between the primary divisions are... | |
| William Ezra Worthen - Architectural drawing - 1857 - 632 pages
...primary divisions into tenths, and number these subdivisions 1, 2, 3, from left to right. Take off now with the compasses eleven of these subdivisions, set...subdivisions by a tenth part of a subdivision, or a hundredth part of a primary division. To take off the number 253 from this scale. Increase the first... | |
| W.E. WORTHEN - 1857 - 600 pages
...the compasses eleven of these subdivisions, set the extent off backwards from the end of the-first primary division, and it will reach beyond the beginning...the extent of ten subdivisions, each one of, these ecjual parts, or, as it may be called, one division of the vernier scale, exceeds one of the subdivisions... | |
| Lucius D. Gould - 1857 - 464 pages
...equal to one of the subdivisions. Now divide the extent thus set off into ten equal parts, ‘niarking the divisions on the opposite side of the divided...left. Then, since the extent of eleven subdivisions been divided into ten equal parts, so that these ten parts exceed by one subdivision the extent of... | |
| John Fry Heather - Angles (Geometry) - 1859 - 198 pages
...marking the primary divisions and the subdivisions, and number them 1 , 2, 3, &c. , backwards 1'rom right to left. Then, since the extent of eleven subdivisions...subdivisions by a tenth part of a subdivision, or a hundredth part of a primary division. In our figure the distances between the primary divisions are... | |
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