A treatise on land-surveying; comprising the theory developed from five elementary principles; and the practice with the chain alone, the compass, the transit, the theodolite, the plane table, &c. Illustrated by four hundred engravings, and a magnetic chart (1875)
Gillespie, W. M. (William Mitchell), 1816-1868 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 78
CHAP. III.] To set out Perpendiculars 1 … so as to make precisely half a right fi-- ^2. angle with the line of sight, -whichpasses through a sht on one sideof the box, and a vertical hairstretched across the opening on theother side, or a mark on the glass.The box is held in the hand overthe spot where the perpendicular isdesired, (a plumb…
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