How It Is Done, or Victories of the Engineer

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Excerpt from How It Is Done, or Victories of the Engineer: Describing in Simple Language How Great Engineering Achievements in All Parts of the World Have Been AccomplishedThe significance of the railroad - What the railroad engineer has to do - Preliminary operations The reconnaissance Develop ment Helical tunnels Preliminary surveys Levelling Contours - The surveyor's life - Location survey - Ranging curves - The theodolite - Several methods of ranging described Road construction - Record trafn'rlaying - Cuttings and embank ments - Blasting rock - A trestle through a lakk - Snowsheds - Laying the track - Preparing the tick-standard rails - Driving the last spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway - Rack railways - Jungfrau Railway - Pike's Peak Railway.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.