The artificer's, farmer's, and inland-navigator's, assistant : Shewing, by decimal tables, (at sight) the most useful kinds of admeasurements at any length, breadth, or depth. Likewise an easy and practical method of leveling, surveying, &c. whereby the farmer may survey, level, sough, drain, and float, his land; calculated and set his work by the acre, rood, perch, or yard, &c. instead of the tedious method of working by arithmetic. It will also greatly facilitate the business of the architect, engineer, surveyor, &c., &c. masons, carpenters, navigators, labourers, &c. (who cannot write) may accurately ascertain, to the thousandth part of a yard, foot, &c. the quantity of work in embanking, canal cutting, reservoirs, aqueducts, marlpits, stone quarries, &c., &c. By Samuel Porter, surveyor and engineer to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, Henley in Arden, Warwickshire. The instrument for leveling may be had of the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Porter, Samuel (Surveyor)

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surveying--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Surveying.

Leveling--England--London--Early works to 1800.

Leveling.

England--London.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages,43 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 4⁰

Place of Publication:

London : Sold at Messrs. Robinsons', Pater-Noster Row; Mr. Taylor, Architectural library, Holborn; and Mr. Faulder's, New Bond Street: also by Edward Jones, Birmingham; G. Morris, Stratford-upon-Avon; and by the author, Henley in Arden, 1799.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

With a half-title.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T22516.

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