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FIELD WORK IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

The outfit of field instruments contains compasses, transits, and levels of
various approved makes; a solar transit, furnished also with stadia wires and
gradienter for tachymetric work; a Gurley mining transit, one of the finest
products of the instrument maker's art; a complete Gurley transit, graduated
to 30 seconds, with solar attachment; hand-levels and clinometers for field topography;
plane tables; a sextant; together with an adequate supply of leveling
rods, telemeter rods, signal poles, chains, tapes, pins, and so on. For hydraulic
surveys a hook gauge and a current meter are provided. All students are instructed
in the theory and adjustments of the field instruments and in their
practical use in the field. They are also required to make up their field-books
in standard forms; to reduce their surveys and execute all the necessary profiles,
plans and maps; and to determine lengths, areas, and volumes both from the
maps and from the original notes. Polar planimeters are provided for facilitating
such estimates, and a pantograph for making reduced copies of finished drawings.
A set of Beggs' Deformeter apparatus is available for use in the work of
Bridge Design.