Civil Engineer''s Handbook: A Convenient Reference Book for Chainmen Rodmen Transitmen Levelers Surveyors as Well as Draftsmen Computers and Railroad Municipal and Hydraulic Engineers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Civil Engineer''s Handbook: A Convenient Reference Book for Chainmen Rodmen Transitmen Levelers Surveyors as Well as Draftsmen Computers and Railroad Municipal and Hydraulic Engineers<br><br>In this little volume the publishers are offering to all who are interested a compact collection of principles methods formulas and tables pertain ing to the different branches of civil engineering. It is intended as a ready reference manual for the student as well as for the technical man engaged in practical work. For this reason whenever there was a choice of rules or methods only the simplest and those best suited to practical use were selected. For the same reason wherever possible examples such as would occur in prac tice have been given together with their solu tions thus illustrating the different steps and processes to be performed in order to obtain practical results.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.