Calendar: 1889-1890 Page 184
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184 ENGINEERING Second Year Lecture Room from to every Friday during the Michael- mas and Lent Terms Field Work at 10 every alternate Saturday in the same Terms The Second Year course deals both in the Lecture Room and in the Field with extended surveying operations Surveys of Towns by Theodolite Surveys for Railways Roads Canals &c Plane Trigonometry applied to Surveying Purposes Spherical Excess Trigonometrical determination of Heights and Distances Measuring Distances from Primary Base Taking out quantities of Cuttings and Embankments Computing Scale Planimeter Setting out Curves by Chain and Theodolite Parliamentary Surveying Standing Orders Contour Levelling Trial Levels for Roads Railways and other Works and the observations to be recorded as to Strata Streams Springs Woods &c Plotting and Grading Sections Plotting Cross Sections Road Alterations &c Curvature and Refraction Sextant Heliostat Plane Table Transit Instrument Time Lati- tude and Longitude Third Year Lecture Room from to every Friday during the Michael- mas and Lent Terms and from to every Friday during the Easter Term Field Work at 10 every alternate Saturday in the same Terms The Third Year course deals both in the Lecture Room and in the Field with Surveying in its application to the various branches of Civil Engineering practice Setting out Work Setting out on Sidelong Ground Setting out Curves Trigono- metrically Setting out Curves when intersection of tangents is inaccessible Lengths of Curves Formulas employed in setting out Curves Sections and Cross Sections Aneroid Barometer and Hypsometer Selecting routes for Roads and Railways Contouring and Laying out Land for Building Irrigation and other purposes Dialling for Mining opera- tions Contract Sections Points and Crossings Tunnelling
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