This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ... smallness of such correction, as may be seen by referring to our Table, page 10, where the correction for eleven chains is shown to amount to no more thanyo of a foot; and as the difference in the distances of the instrument from the back and fore staves can in no case equal tht sum, it is evident that such correction ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ... smallness of such correction, as may be seen by referring to our Table, page 10, where the correction for eleven chains is shown to amount to no more thanyo of a foot; and as the difference in the distances of the instrument from the back and fore staves can in no case equal tht sum, it is evident that such correction may be safely disregarded in practice. Several machines have been constructed or designed for the purpose of describing a section of any ground passed over by the instrument, which at the same time would register the distance passed over, as well as the undulations: perhaps the best of this kind was the one designed and constructed by George Edwards, Esq., Civil Engineer, late of Lowestoff, which is fully described and illustrated in the forty-fourth volume of the Transactions of the Society of Arts, page 123, to which we refer. The use of such machines, however, must, from the nature of the work to be performed, be of a very limited character. We have now described the leading principles and practice of levelling as employed in engineering operations; and although our observations may appear to be confined to its applicability to railroad purposes, yet the intelligent student will find no difficulty in applying to practice the same principles to every other branch of the profession where levelling operations may be required. We might indeed have multiplied instances and examples which would in reality have had no other effect than to swell our volume, as it must have been to a great extent but simply a repetition of the details already given. Before closing this subject we cannot refrain from stating, that it has long been our opinion that if a register could be kept by some public body (as the Institution of Civil Engineers) of the height o...
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pub by Lockwood & Co., 1875, stated 6th Edition, revised & corrected. NOT exLib. Good cond. hardcover now in archival grade Brodart, no dj. Tan buckram w/ still bright lettering on spine. Lt-mdt fading, spotting & bumping to exterior. P/O's stamp (2ce) inside front cover, & ano stamp + 1881 signature on ffep. Hinges tender but sound. Light soiling to eps. Binding slightly tender at TP, but holding & o/w sound. Light foxing, light dampstaining here & there. All foldout illustrations are present & VG. 215pp + foldouts + 48pp. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall Good cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
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