Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Exercises in Surveying for Field and Office Work: With Questions for Discussion Intended for Use in Connection With the Author's Book Plane Surveying
The author is convinced from his own experience that the most effective course in field work is not that in which the chief aim is to make a complete survey of a more or less extensive territory. On the contrary, much time may be lost in undertaking work for which the student is not prepared, and still more may be wasted in requiring the student to repeat the same kind of work day after day merely to cover a given amount of territory. It is far better to begin with a systematic course of exercises which shall serve not only as a preliminary drill in the use Of instruments, but also as a careful study of the various methods which underlie all surveying. Not only will the student be better prepared for subsequent courses in municipal, mining, railway and geodetic surveying, but the effect of such a thorough introductory course will be felt after graduation in whatever kind of surveying he may be engaged. For this reason such a course may well extend over the first two college years.
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