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WITH such a full time-page this book fairly well describes itself. The authors have been engaged in teaching engineering and surveying, and have found this graduated series of simple problems useful for sustaining the interest of their students in their work and for covering the course required by the faculty. The book is addressed to those who are professionally interested in such matters, or who wish to acquire the capacity to carry out certain operations in the field with facility, and with that amount of accuracy which the nature of the work demands. Consequently, there is little reference to theory. We have the ordinary methods of measuring by chain and problems connected with levelling. The compass, theodolite, and sextant come under review, and the mechanical adjustments of these instruments are described, but with no great minuteness. Greater care might have been bestowed on some of the formulae given; those on p. 36 have apparently been misprinted. The railroad surveying problems are more satisfactory, and seem to be of practical utility.
Problems in Surveying, Railroad Surveying, and Geodesy, with an Appendix on the Adjustments of the Engineer's Transit and Level.
By Howard Chapin Ives Harold Ezra Hilts. Pp. ix + 136. (New York: John Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1906.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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P., W. Problems in Surveying, Railroad Surveying, and Geodesy, with an Appendix on the Adjustments of the Engineer's Transit and Level . Nature 76, 101 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076101a0
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