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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
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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.
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