A dictionary of electrical words, terms and phrases (1896)
Houston, Edwin J. (Edwin James), 1847-1914 · New York, The W.J. Johnston company · leaf 127
, H, are providedfor measuring the magnetic azimuth of any ob-ject. Compass, Boxing the —Naming, consecutively, all the different points orrhumbs of the compass from any one of them.(See Co?npass, Points of) Compass-Card,—(See Card, Compass) Compass, Inclination A magnetic needle moving freely in a… … Fig. ib2 Inclination. Compass. edges so as to be free to move only in the verticalplane of the graduated vertical circle C C. Thiscircle is movable over the horizontal graduatedcircle H H. In order to determine the true angleof dip, the vertical plane in which the needle isfree to move must be…
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