The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 56
in 25,000,000In this list, each country is placed in the order of the relative insecurityof its railways. The terrible disproportion in this respect, between the twoformer and the two latter, is very significant and deserves careful atten.tion. 18 J.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECTS JOURNAL. 41… … Let B and D be the ends of two straight lines, tangents to the cnrveBCD, which we wish to set out—the position of the two lines havingbeen correctly determined from the base line of the survey. We mustthen ascertain the an^le that a cliord of any convenient lengtli (say 10chains) malies with the…
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