Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 305
NEW STADIA CHAETS. 269 than the stadia reading" were drawn for every foot. The advantage of curved lines instead of straight ones is that they are equally distant horizontally, and for heights they are nearly equally distant verti- cally: and points between lines can be more accurately read, in… … Fig. 2. This shows thirteen per cent, of the lines. A (*) indicates a point referred to in examples following description. que nee, than they could be in a chart made of straight lines only. Calculations for Location of Lines. These curved lines of the charts were drawn through points, whose…
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