A Practical Treatise on the Science of Land and Engineering Surveying, Leveling, Estimating Quantities, &cE. & F.N. Spon, 1885 - 346 sider |
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A Practical Treatise on the Science of Land and Engineering Surveying ... Henry S. Merrett Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1863 |
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Side 368 - CONTENTS : A complete Explanation of the London Practice. General Instructions. Order of Taking Off. Modes of Measurement of the various Trades. Use and Waste. Ventilation and Warming. Credits, with various Examples of Treatment. Abbreviations. Squaring the Dimensions.
Side 104 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Side 33 - 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. 11. An obtuse angle is that which is greater than a right angle. 12. An acute angle is that which is less than a right angle. 13. A term or boundary is the extremity of any thing.
Side 367 - A Descriptive Treatise on Mathematical Drawing Instruments: their construction, uses, qualities, selection, preservation, and suggestions for improvements, with hints upon Drawing and Colouring.
Side 327 - Plan shall be added of any Building, Yard, Courtyard, or Land within the curtilage of any Building, or of any Ground cultivated as a Garden...
Side 142 - The VERSED SINE of an arc is that part of the diameter which is between the sine and the arc.
Side 140 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees...
Side 365 - Practical Geometry, Perspective, and Engineering Drawing; a Course of Descriptive Geometry adapted to the Requirements of the Engineering Draughtsman, including the determination of cast shadows and Isometric Projection, each chapter being followed by numerous examples; to which are added rules for Shading...
Side 328 - All places where for a distance of thirty feet and upwards there will be a less space than nine feet six inches between the outside of the footpath on either side of the street or road and the nearest rail of the tramway...
Side 68 - ... the rail; multiply the length by the breadth and the product by the height; then divide the product by two, and you have the number of bushels of shelled corn in the crib.