INDEX
Reading edition
A B C D E F G H I L M
N O P Q R S T V W Y
Abney's clinometer, 411
Achromatism explained, 35
Adjustable axis, of plane table, 479 of theodolite, 237
Adjustable tripod, 329
Alidades for plane tables, 473
Alloys used for surveying instruments, 7
Altazimuth theodolite, 295
Altitudes, measurements of, 550
Aluminium alloys, 8
Anallatic telescope, 364
Anemometers, 596
Aneroid barometers, Vidie's, 558 Bourdon's, 568
Apomecometer, 469
Arrows, for chain, 494
Artificial horizons, 443
Atmospheric pressure, measurements of, 550
Axes, workmanship in, 11
Bakewell's tangential index, 384
Ball and socket adjustments: Hoffmann's, Pastorelli's, 330
Bands, steel, for measuring land, 449
Barker's clinometer, 415
Barometer, aneroid, 558 mountain, 550 mercurial, 549
Base line apparatus, 517
Beam compass measurements, 510
Bellamy's road tracer, 420
Bill-hook, 582
Binoculars, prism, 584
Black, optical, 14
Boiling-point thermometer, hypsometer, 569
Boning rods, 578
Books, levelling, 173
Boucher's calculator, 587 improved, 590
Box sextant, 451 with continuous arc, 461 with supplementary arc, 458
Bronzing instruments, 14
Brunton mine transit, 353
Bubble trier, 88
Burel's reflecting level, 144
Burnier's clinometer, 416
Caink's rule for correcting inclines, 498
Calculators: Barnard's, 594 Boucher's, 587 Fuller's, 592 Thacher's, 595
Camera, 243, 585
Cases, for carrying maps, 597 leather, for instruments, 23
Cavalry sketching case, 488
Cement tester, Mann's, 585
Centesimal division, 185
Chain scales, pocket sets, 596
Chain vice, 496
Chaining, 497
Chains, land, various, 490
Chains, sounding, 526
Chronometer and chronograph, 598
Circumferentor, 307
Clamp and tangent motions, various, 202
Classification of instruments, 5
Clinometer compasses, 418 hanging, 344
Clinometers, various, 411
Coast survey lines, 527
Coincidence rods, 511
Collimation, 55
Collimator, 121
Compass, surveying with, 80
Compasses: magnetic, bar, 59 Barker's, 84 Burnier's, 80 hanging, 344 Hutchinson's, 79 luminous, 84 mariners', 73 prismatic, 75 pocket, 82 ring, 72 trough, 74, 83
Compensated rods, 512
Connecting link, to extend hand rods, 531
Convex and concave lenses, 32
Cooke's level, 138
Co-ordinate slide rule, 594
Cross-staff heads, 573
Curvature, correction for, 170
Cushing's level, 136
De Lisle's reflecting clinometer, 413
Declination of needles, 67
Deville's theodolite, 263
Diagonal eye-piece, 45
Dials, mining, 309
Diaphragm of telescope, 50, 114, 135
Dip compass, 354
Dip of needles, 66
Dispersion of light, 35
Dividing engine, 176
Division of the circle, 175
Double optical square, 467
Drop arrow, 494
Dumpy level, 110 improved, 123
Dynameter, 43
Edgeworth's stadiometer, 482
Engineer's level, 133
Engraving, note on, 16
Everest's theodolite, 271 tripod, 273
Excise ink bottle, 174
Eye-pieces: Ramsden, 41 erecting, 44 diagonal, 45 reflecting, 46
Field-books, 289, 374, 380
Field-glasses, 582
Finishing of surveying instruments, 14
Formation of images in a telescope, 33
French forms of miners' dials, 336
Fuller's rule, 592
Geological tools, 587
George's artificial horizon, 446
Girth straps, tapes, etc., 579
Glass diaphragm, 53
Glass, working, 16 refraction of, 25
Gradient scale, 213
Gradienter Screw, 386
Gradiometer, 404
Gradioplane, 409
Graduation, 179
Green, William, Subtense instruments, 355
Hadley's quadrant, 423
Hanging mining compass, 344
Hedley's dial, 322 improved, 326, 329, 333
Heliograph, 540
Heliostat and heliotrope, 537
Henderson's miners' dial, 315
Hick's patent level, 96
Historical sketch of surveying instruments, 1
Hoffmann's ball and socket head, 330
Horizontal scale of tangents, 213
Hypotenuse and base, 212
Hypsometer, 569
Illumination of axis of telescope, 234
Inclinometer: Lister's, 389
Lacquering work, 15
Lamp, magnesium, 545 for levelling, 169 mining, 348 theodolite, 235
Land chains, 490 vice for adjusting, 496
Lanterns, oil, 545
Lean's miners' dial, 315
Leather cases, 23
Lenses, 33 achromatic, 36
Level: for levelling staff, 163 mechanics', 575 with inclines, 576
Levels: surveyors', 97 Cooke's, 138 Cushing's, 136 dumpy, 110 same improved, 123 engineers', 133 reflecting, 144 pocket, 142 simple construction of, 141 supplementary parts to, 139 water, 146 Y-form, 98 same improved, 107
Level tubes, 86 circular, 96, 576 curvature of, 87 divisions upon, 90 readers for, 95 Scott's, 93 sensitiveness of, 89 Strange's, 92 with air cell, 93
Level tube trier, 88
Levelling: books, 172 staves, telescopic, 148 semicircular, 150 mining, 158 papering of, 159 preservation of, 161 various patterns of, 151 holder for, 163 pads for, 161 pegs for, 171 practice of, 163
Light for night observations, 169, 545
Light, refraction of, 27
Line, sounding, 527
Lubrication of joints, etc., 20
Luminous compass, 84
Magnesium lamp, 546
Magnetic compasses, 59 correction of, 64 declination of, 67 inclination of, 66 trough, 74 variation of, 68 various forms, 82
Magnetic needles, 59 lifting, 65 mounting, 64
Magnetic needles, various, 59
Magnetism, 59 preservation of, 71
Magnifying power of telescope, 43
Measuring rods, 530
Mechanics' levels, 575
Mercurial barometer, 549
Metals employed in surveying instruments, 7
Micrometer microscopes: various, 192 Stanley's, 197
Micrometer theodolites, 259
Military sketching board, 485 cavalry, 488
Miners' circumferentor, 307
Miners' compasses: French, 336 hanging, 344 Stanley's prismatic, 343
Miners' dials: various, 309 hanging, 344 Hedley's, 322 Henderson's, 315 Lean's, 315 improvements in Hedley's dial, 326, 329, 333
Mining, survey lamp, 348 targets, 349 theodolite, 342
Morse signaling, 544
Mountain barometer, 550 theodolite, 258
Nautical sextant, 429
Needles, magnetic, 59
Night signalling stations, 545
Octant or quadrant, 422
Offset rods, 507
Omnimeter, 374
Opisometer, 587
Optical black, 14
Optical principles of telescope, 25
Optical square, 465
Outfits for surveyors abroad, 598
Packing of instruments, 21
Parallax, in eye-piece, 55
Parallel plates, to level, 99 to theodolite, 219
Passometer, 525
Pastorelli's ball and socket head, 330
Pedometer, 524
Perambulator, 521
Permanent stations, 535
Pickets or ranging poles, 533
Pine measuring rods, 508
Pioneer tools, 585
Photographic camera, 243, 585
Plain theodolite, 215, 267
Plane tables, 472
Platinum-iridium points, 53, 129, 135
Plummets, 232
Pocket-books, 534, 596
Pocket levels, 96 sighted, 142, 525
Pocket magnetic compasses, 83
Point diaphragm, 53, 129, 135
Polishing work, 14
Preservation of instruments, 20
Prismatic clinometers, 414
Prismatic compasses, 75 Hutchinson's, 79 stands, 78
Prismatic mining survey compass, 343
Prisms as reflectors, 29
Protectors for the eyes, 584
Protractors, sketching, 82, 374, 485
Quadrant, 422
Qualities of work, 7 of a telescope, 56
Quick-setting surveyor's level, 132
Quick-setting theodolites, 257
Quiver for arrows, 494
Railway gauge, 579 theodolite, 258
Ramsden eye-piece, 41
Ranging poles, 533
Ray shade, 129
Reader for level tube, 95
Reading microscopes, 188
Reconnoitring glass and telescope, 582
Reflecting cap to telescope, 334
Reflecting circle, 424
Reflecting clinometers, 413
Reflecting levels, 144
Reflection of glass, 25
Reflector in eye-piece, 46
Refraction of light, 25
Repairing sleeves for steel bands, 505
Revolving compass to dial, 318
Richmond's tension handle, for steel band, 503
Road tracer, 420
Rods: coincidence, 511 compensated, 512 hand, 530 standard, 508
Rule, civil engineer's, 532
Rule for correcting inclined measurement, 498
Rule form clinometer, 418
Semi-circumferentor, 346
Sextants, 425 box, 451 with supplementary arc, 461 continuous arc, 458 sounding, 449 surveying (open), 464
Sight director to stadium, 364
Sighted pocket level, 142
Silvering sextant glasses, 437
Sketch books, etc., 585
Sketching board, military, 485
Slashing knife, 582
Slide rules, various, 590
Sliding stage to theodolite, 249
Socket for station pole, 535
Solar attachment to theodolite, 239, 259
Soldering, 13
Sounding chain, 526 lines, 527
Sounding sextant, 449
Spectacles for protecting the eyes, 584
Spherical aberration, 33
Spur shod picket, 535
Stadia points, 131 webs, 114
Stadium for tacheometer, 155, 373
Stadiometer, 482
Standard rods, 508
Stands of instruments, 19
Stations for observation, 533
Staves, levelling, 149
Steel bands and tapes, 499, 507
Striding level, 237
Style of work, 16
Subtense, instruments, 355 diaphragm, 114, 363
Supplementary arc to box sextant, 461
Sun glass to telescope, etc., 47
Tacheometers: general description, 370 Stanley's, etc., 371
Tacheometers: stadium for, 155, 373 field book, 374
Tangent motions, 202
Tapes, linen, etc., 505
Targets, mining, 349
Telemeters, 528
Telescope: general description of, 24 Kepler's, Galileo's, 40 body of, 47
Telescope: optical arrangements, 47 optical principles, 25 qualities, 56 reconnoitring, 582
Telescopic pocket level, 143
Tension handles for steel bands, 503
Theodolites, 214 adjustment, 276 adjustable axis, 237, 248 Deville's, 263 Everest's, 271 micrometer, 259 mountain, 258 plain, 265, 267 railway, 258 simple construction, 275 solar attachment to, 239 Souterrain 348 Stanley's, 247 transit, 215, 231, 247 14-inch, 295 36-inch Colonel Strange's, 298 Universal, 265
Thermometer for steel band, 503 boiling point, 569
Timber girth strap, 579 marking knife, 581 rods, 582
Tools used in manufacture of instruments, 11
Triangle for levelling staff, 162
Tribrach adjustments, 126 Everest's, 272 with mechanical stage, 251
Tripods, 114, 217, 322 framed, 250 miners', 313
Tripods, jointed, for mining instruments, 313
Trough compass, 74, 83, 236
Vernier scale readings, 180
Vicat needle, 586
Vice for adjusting land chain, 496
Water levels, 146
Waterproof covers, 23
Watkin's aneroid, 567
Watkin's clinometer, 417
Wealemefna, 587
Webs, collecting and mounting, 51
Whistles, 585
Y-levels, 98 improved construction, 107
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