Railroad Engineers Field Book And Explorers Guide Especially Adapted To The Use Of Railroad Engineers On Location And Construction And To The Need

Author : H. C. Godwin
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ISBN 13 : 9781331949282
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book And Explorers' Guide written by H. C. Godwin and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from And Explorers' Guide: Especially Adapted to the Use of Railroad Engineers on Location and Construction, and to the Needs of the Explorer in Making Exploratory Surveys I Am publishing the following notes because I think they may possibly supply the want of a Field-book, - a want which I have often felt myself and have often heard expressed - which, while avoiding as much as possible the intricacies of mathematics, would be of more general application than any of the books of this class which I have as yet come across. The Railroad engineer is rarely an expert mathematician: in fact it has always seemed to me that the time which must necessarily be spent by him in attaining mathematical proficiency might be very much better employed in reading up some of the more practical subjects, of his profession. Bearing this in mind, I have endeavored to strip the following pages of all unnecessary mathematical deductions, making it mainly my object to give the results deduced, and yet at the same time giving sufficient explanation to enable any one possessed of the ordinary smattering of mathematics and mechanics to deduce the same results for himself. I have avoided the insertion of Logarithmic Tables. I am well aware that to some this will appear a serious omission; but considering that this is merely a Field-book, and not a work to be consulted in cases where accuracy in the 6th figure is usually essential, I have deemed that the exclusion of the hundred pages or so which this omission permits, amply compensates for the few seconds of additional labor which the lack of them may occasionally involve. Speaking for myself, as regards Railroad work, I must say that for one time that I work by logarithms I work a hundred times by "naturals;" and I know that most engineera would bear similar testimony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.