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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.