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Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 by Various
page 61 of 163 (37%)

62. Describe an engineer's transit, and name its adjustments.

63. Describe a Y level, and name its adjustments.

64. How many kinds of leveling rods do you know of?

65. State how they are graduated, and how they can be read to the
1/1000 of a foot.

66. Show a form of field-book for transit notes used when "running"
curves, and place thereon notes of a 5 deg. curve for 1,000, with two
intermediate "set-ups."

67. Show a form of level-book, and place therein sufficient figures to
show your method.

68. What are cross-sections?

69. How do you set slope stakes for excavation and embankment?

70. What is a grade line?

71. What proportion of the breaking weight of a beam would you
consider a safe load?

72. With the load uniformly distributed, what fractional part of the
whole weight may be considered, in all calculations, as being carried
at the center?

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