A system of useful formulæ. adapted to the practical operations of locating and constructing railroads; a paper read before the Boston society of civil engineers,
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781425516819
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: (1) COMMENCING with the most simple operations and forms of computations, we shall assume as the most simple of railroad curves, such as will unite two direct or straight lines of different bearings in such a manner that each of these lines will become tangents to said curve.