Pocketbook for railroad and civil engineers, containing new, exact, and concise methods for laying out railroad curves, switches, frog angles, and crossings; ... of cuttings and embankments, earthwork, etc.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781425514884
Subjects: Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building; Engineering: general; Technology; History - U.S.; Science/Mathematics; United States - General; History / United States / General; Engineering - General
First sentence: Curved rulers, segments of circles, made of hard wood, strong pasteboard or of thin sheet metal, with their radii in inches marked on them, are employed to determinethe most favorable ground for a railway, when the survey is made and laid down.