Surveying for beginners - Civil Engineering

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SURVEYING
FOR
BEGINNERS
J. B, DAVIS
1895-1911
SECOND EDITION
REVISEDAXDENLARGED
GEORGE WAHR, Publisher
ANNARBOR, MICHIGAN
191
Copyright
BY GEORGE WAHR
1911
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The Ann Arbor Press
LIST OF WORK
I. Reading Verniers.
II. Measuring with Steel Tapes.
Survey of a triangle.
JNIeasuring the same distance eight times.
III. Handling Instruments.
Transit. Line Staff.
Level.
Leveling Rod.
IV. Survey of a triangle with a transit.
Twenty rod readings on the same B. M.
V. Reading Angles. Closing the horizon.
Peg Levels. Short circuit.
YI. Intersections and Connections.
VII. Passing Obstructions.
VIII. Circular Curves with Steel Tapes.
IX. Circular Curves with Steel Tapes and Transit.
X. Traverse Survey. Field with seven sides.
Peg Levels. Long circuit.
XI. Traverse Survey. Computing and platting.
Profile Leveling.
XII. Profile and Grade Line.
Staking out a grade.
XIII. Straight Line.
Staking out a building.