Railway Engineers' Field-Book And Explorers' Guide - Couverture souple

Godwin, H C

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3744725014 ISBN 13 : 9783744725019

Editeur : Hansebooks, 2017

Synopsis

Railway Engineers' Field-Book And Explorers' Guide is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Field-book, a want which 1have often felt myself and have often heard expressed which, while avoiding as much as possible the intricacies of mathematics, would be of more general application than any of the books of this class which I have as yet come across. The Railroad engineer is rarely an expert mathematician :in fact it has always seemed to me that the time which must necessarily be spent by him in attaining mathematical proficiency might be very much better employed in reading up some of the more practical subjects of his profession. Bearing this in mind, I have endeavored to strip the following pages of all unnecessary mathematical deductions, making it mainly my object to give the results deduced, and yet at the same time giving sufficient explanation to enable any one possessed of the ordinary smattering of mathematics and mechanics to deduce the same results for himself. I have avoided the insertion of Logarithmic Tables. I am well aware that to some this will appear a serious omission; but considering that this is merely a Field-book, and not a work to be consulted in cases where accuracy in the 6th figure is usually essential, I have deemed that the exclusion of the hundred pages or so which this omission permits, amply compensates for the few seconds of additional labor which the lack of them may occasionally involve. Speaking for myself, as regards Railroad work, I must say that for one time that I work by logarithms I work a hundred times by naturals; and I know that most engineers would bear similar testimony.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hansebooks
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3744725014
• ISBN 13: 9783744725019
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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