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... Adjustments - Simple Levelling - Com- pound Levelling - Datum - Ordnance Datum - Bench Marks - Posi- tion of Bench Marks - Different Kinds of Levelling - Level Book- CONTENTS . Foot Plates - Keeping the Level Book - viii CONTENTS .
... Adjustments - Simple Levelling - Com- pound Levelling - Datum - Ordnance Datum - Bench Marks - Posi- tion of Bench Marks - Different Kinds of Levelling - Level Book- CONTENTS . Foot Plates - Keeping the Level Book - viii CONTENTS .
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... - How to use Computation Scale - Various Kinds of Compu- tion Scales - Areas by different Scales to Plan - Planimeter . 256-266 INDEX 267-272 UNI CALIFOR INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS . Description of Illustration . X CONTENTS .
... - How to use Computation Scale - Various Kinds of Compu- tion Scales - Areas by different Scales to Plan - Planimeter . 256-266 INDEX 267-272 UNI CALIFOR INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS . Description of Illustration . X CONTENTS .
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... TION 197 153 CROSS SECTIONS 246 , 247 , 248 , 249 197 , 198 CROSS STAFF 47 , 48 , 49 29 , 30 CROSS WIRES 130 73 CURVATURE 215 172 CURVES , OFFICE . 299 237 CURVES , SETTING OUT . 268 to 284 210 to 227 D. DATUM DATUM , ORDNANCE MARK 218 ...
... TION 197 153 CROSS SECTIONS 246 , 247 , 248 , 249 197 , 198 CROSS STAFF 47 , 48 , 49 29 , 30 CROSS WIRES 130 73 CURVATURE 215 172 CURVES , OFFICE . 299 237 CURVES , SETTING OUT . 268 to 284 210 to 227 D. DATUM DATUM , ORDNANCE MARK 218 ...
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... tion of c ' . 300 B C 347 To fix Position of an Inter- section . It may happen that the intersection of a fence on the B315 other side of the hedge requires to be accurately determined , for which purpose a simple offset A 304 would ...
... tion of c ' . 300 B C 347 To fix Position of an Inter- section . It may happen that the intersection of a fence on the B315 other side of the hedge requires to be accurately determined , for which purpose a simple offset A 304 would ...
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... tion of the internal fence is of a character that a line E D may serve the double purpose of taking up this hedge and acting as a check to the triangle . For if the lengths A E on line A B and A D on the line a c be carefully measured ...
... tion of the internal fence is of a character that a line E D may serve the double purpose of taking up this hedge and acting as a check to the triangle . For if the lengths A E on line A B and A D on the line a c be carefully measured ...
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Page 89 - IF a straight line fall upon two parallel straight lines, it makes the alternate angles equal to one another; and the exterior angle equal to the interior and opposite upon...
Page 85 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.
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Page 85 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another : 16.
Page 92 - In any right-angled triangle, the square which is described on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the sides which contain the right angle.
Page 116 - In any plane triangle, as the sum of the sides about the vertical angle is to their difference, so is the tangent of half the sum of the angles at the base to the tangent of half their difference.
Page 85 - A plane rectilineal angle is the inclination of two straight lines to one another, which meet together, but are not in the same straight line.
Page 127 - As the sum of the two given sides Is to their difference, So is the tangent of half the sum of their opposite angles To the tangent of half the difference of the same angles.
Page 85 - A diameter of a circle is a straight line drawn through the centre, and terminated both ways by the circumference.