Notes and Problems on the Adjustment and Use of Surveying Instruments: Including Forms for Field Notes for the Use of Students in Topographic and Railroad Engineering (Classic Reprint)

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This field manual has been prepared expressly for the author's students in surveying, in the expectation that its use would go far toward solving the problem of how to properly guide the field work of a large number Of students with a limited corps of in struction. It attempts to supply the student with a clear state ment of what each prdolbfirl 'cbn5ists, tse neces'sary equipment for its solution, together wine pr'oper methods of performing each problem and recording its. Field. Notes. He use of mimeograph copies of part of this book the past two' years has proved a great saving of time, as well as 'othorvli's'8 aided in the thoroughness of the instruction. It is intended that this manual shall to a cer tain extent take the place of an instructor, but not the place of a general text book. It will add the definite directions for each problem, to the general instruction contained in the textbooks. Wherever reference is had to the page of text book. Johnson's Surveying is meant.

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