Descrizione

The object of the following pages is, to afford to young Engineers a guide to practical work, and to all a handy book for reference. With a view to the former, I have gone into details, and mentioned trifling points, to a degree which many will think useless, and almost as if done with the object of increasing the number of pages but so far from that being my intention, I have done my best to bring the whole within as small a compass as pos sible. With a view to making it a book for reference, I have given abstracts of all which concerns the Engineer in the Standing Orders and Railways' Clauses Act, and have introduced many other things, such as gradient tables (page etc.