Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Method of Calculating the Cubic Contents of Excavations and Embankments, by the Aid of Diagrams: Together With Directions for Estimating the Cost of Earthwork
Remarks on the operation of steam excavators, and rules for estima ting the cost of moving earth by wheeled and drag scrapers and by locomotive and cars, have been added. They are taken from the later editions of the author's Civil Engineer's pocket-book.
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