Excerpt from Practical Marine SurveyingThe need of a suitable text-book on Marine Surveying for use at the Naval Academy has been felt for several years by the officers engaged in teaching that subject.Having been engaged exclusively in surveying work for six years previous to my assignment to duty at the Naval Academy, I was requested by the Head of Department of Astronomy, Navigation, and Surveying to prepare a text-book on Marine Surveying to take the place of the one then in use.After considerable thought, I agreed to undertake the task, and the present volume is the result; and it is earnestly hoped that it may be of value, not only as a text-book for the Acad emy, but to others who may be without experience in survey ing work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. TOPOGRAPHY--THE PLANE-TABLE. 107. Under the head of secondary triangulation or coast lining were given instructions for putting in the topography near the coast. If it is desired to carry the topography farther inland, other methods must be used; though, for all purposes of navigation, only that portion of the country visible from a ship's deck is needed on the chart. When each peak is occupied, sketches or photographs of the surrounding country are taken; and from these views, from the computed heights of peaks, and from views taken from the ship's deck the contourlines are put in by the draughtsman, and the character of the country indicated by conventional signs. Care must be taken in drawing contour-lines that they indicate properly the slopes, directions of arroyos, canons, etc., and that rivers are not made to flow uphill No contour-line can have an end except by passing beyond the limits of the sheet, otherwise they must be closed curves. 108. In the topographical work of the Coast Survey the plane-table is used exclusively, and it may also be used in nautical surveys for running in shore-line, and with very accurate results, though at the expense of time. The plane-table comprises a drawing-board, tripod-head and tripod, and alidade. The board is made of well-seasoned wood, carefully constructed in panels to prevent warping, and with its upper surface perfectly plane, and has three brass sockets on its under side set at the vertices of an equilateral triangle, and equally distant from the centre of the board, by which it is secured by screws to the tripod-head. The tripod-head is of brass, and consists of two plates similar to the azimuth plates of a theodolite, having clamp and tangent-screw, but no graduations, ..

An authoritative overview of marine surveying techniques that is indispensible to students in the field and worthwhile for prospective boat owners looking to inform their buying decisions.