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William Ford Stanley

A B C D E F G H I L M
N O P Q R S T V W Y
  • Abney's clinometer, 411
  • Achromatism explained, 35
  • Adjustable axis, of plane table, 479
    • of theodolite, 237
  • Adjustable tripod, 329
  • Alidades for plane tables, 473
  • Alloys used for surveying instruments, 7
  • Altazimuth theodolite, 295
  • Altitudes, measurements of, 550
  • Aluminium alloys, 8
  • Anallatic telescope, 364
  • Anemometers, 596
  • Aneroid barometers, Vidie's, 558
    • Bourdon's, 568
  • Apomecometer, 469
  • Arrows, for chain, 494
  • Artificial horizons, 443
  • Atmospheric pressure, measurements of, 550
  • Axes, workmanship in, 11
  • Bakewell's tangential index, 384
  • Ball and socket adjustments: Hoffmann's, Pastorelli's, 330
  • Bands, steel, for measuring land, 449
  • Barker's clinometer, 415
  • Barometer, aneroid, 558
    • mountain, 550
    • mercurial, 549
  • Base line apparatus, 517
  • Beam compass measurements, 510
  • Bellamy's road tracer, 420
  • Bill-hook, 582
  • Binoculars, prism, 584
  • Black, optical, 14
  • Boiling-point thermometer, hypsometer, 569
  • Boning rods, 578
  • Books, levelling, 173
  • Boucher's calculator, 587
    • improved, 590
  • Box sextant, 451
    • with continuous arc, 461
    • with supplementary arc, 458
  • Bronzing instruments, 14
  • Brunton mine transit, 353
  • Bubble trier, 88
  • Burel's reflecting level, 144
  • Burnier's clinometer, 416
  • Caink's rule for correcting inclines, 498
  • Calculators: Barnard's, 594
    • Boucher's, 587
    • Fuller's, 592
    • Thacher's, 595
  • Camera, 243, 585
  • Cases, for carrying maps, 597
    • leather, for instruments, 23
  • Cavalry sketching case, 488
  • Cement tester, Mann's, 585
  • Centesimal division, 185
  • Chain scales, pocket sets, 596
  • Chain vice, 496
  • Chaining, 497
  • Chains, land, various, 490
  • Chains, sounding, 526
  • Chronometer and chronograph, 598
  • Circumferentor, 307
  • Clamp and tangent motions, various, 202
  • Classification of instruments, 5
  • Clinometer compasses, 418
  • Clinometers, various, 411
  • Coast survey lines, 527
  • Coincidence rods, 511
  • Collimation, 55
  • Collimator, 121
  • Compass, surveying with, 80
  • Compasses: magnetic, bar, 59
    • Barker's, 84
    • Burnier's, 80
    • hanging, 344
    • Hutchinson's, 79
    • luminous, 84
    • mariners', 73
    • prismatic, 75
    • pocket, 82
    • ring, 72
    • trough, 74, 83
  • Compensated rods, 512
  • Connecting link, to extend hand rods, 531
  • Convex and concave lenses, 32
  • Cooke's level, 138
  • Co-ordinate slide rule, 594
  • Cross-staff heads, 573
  • Curvature, correction for, 170
  • Cushing's level, 136
  • De Lisle's reflecting clinometer, 413
  • Declination of needles, 67
  • Deville's theodolite, 263
  • Diagonal eye-piece, 45
  • Dials, mining, 309
  • Diaphragm of telescope, 50, 114, 135
  • Dip compass, 354
  • Dip of needles, 66
  • Dispersion of light, 35
  • Dividing engine, 176
  • Division of the circle, 175
  • Double optical square, 467
  • Drop arrow, 494
  • Dumpy level, 110
    • improved, 123
  • Dynameter, 43
  • Edgeworth's stadiometer, 482
  • Engineer's level, 133
  • Engraving, note on, 16
  • Everest's theodolite, 271
  • Excise ink bottle, 174
  • Eye-pieces: Ramsden, 41
    • erecting, 44
    • diagonal, 45
    • reflecting, 46
  • Field-books, 289, 374, 380
  • Field-glasses, 582
  • Finishing of surveying instruments, 14
  • Formation of images in a telescope, 33
  • French forms of miners' dials, 336
  • Fuller's rule, 592
  • Geological tools, 587
  • George's artificial horizon, 446
  • Girth straps, tapes, etc., 579
  • Glass diaphragm, 53
  • Glass, working, 16 refraction of, 25
  • Gradient scale, 213
  • Gradienter Screw, 386
  • Gradiometer, 404
  • Gradioplane, 409
  • Graduation, 179
  • Green, William, Subtense instruments, 355
  • Hadley's quadrant, 423
  • Hanging mining compass, 344
  • Hedley's dial, 322
  • Heliograph, 540
  • Heliostat and heliotrope, 537
  • Henderson's miners' dial, 315
  • Hick's patent level, 96
  • Historical sketch of surveying instruments, 1
  • Hoffmann's ball and socket head, 330
  • Horizontal scale of tangents, 213
  • Hypotenuse and base, 212
  • Hypsometer, 569
  • Illumination of axis of telescope, 234
  • Inclinometer: Lister's, 389
  • Lacquering work, 15
  • Lamp, magnesium, 545
    • for levelling, 169
    • mining, 348
    • theodolite, 235
  • Land chains, 490
    • vice for adjusting, 496
  • Lanterns, oil, 545
  • Lean's miners' dial, 315
  • Leather cases, 23
  • Lenses, 33
    • achromatic, 36
  • Level: for levelling staff, 163
    • mechanics', 575
    • with inclines, 576
  • Levels: surveyors', 97
    • Cooke's, 138
    • Cushing's, 136
    • dumpy, 110
    • same improved, 123
    • engineers', 133
    • reflecting, 144
    • pocket, 142
    • simple construction of, 141
    • supplementary parts to, 139
    • water, 146
    • Y-form, 98
    • same improved, 107
  • Level tubes, 86
    • circular, 96, 576
    • curvature of, 87
    • divisions upon, 90
    • readers for, 95
    • Scott's, 93
    • sensitiveness of, 89
    • Strange's, 92
    • with air cell, 93
  • Level tube trier, 88
  • Levelling: books, 172
    • staves, telescopic, 148
    • semicircular, 150
    • mining, 158
    • papering of, 159
    • preservation of, 161
    • various patterns of, 151
    • holder for, 163
    • pads for, 161
    • pegs for, 171
    • practice of, 163
  • Light for night observations, 169, 545
  • Light, refraction of, 27
  • Line, sounding, 527
  • Lubrication of joints, etc., 20
  • Luminous compass, 84
  • Magnesium lamp, 546
  • Magnetic compasses, 59
    • correction of, 64
    • declination of, 67
    • inclination of, 66
    • trough, 74
    • variation of, 68
    • various forms, 82
  • Magnetic needles, 59
    • lifting, 65
    • mounting, 64
  • Magnetic needles, various, 59
  • Magnetism, 59
    • preservation of, 71
  • Magnifying power of telescope, 43
  • Measuring rods, 530
  • Mechanics' levels, 575
  • Mercurial barometer, 549
  • Metals employed in surveying instruments, 7
  • Micrometer microscopes: various, 192
    • Stanley's, 197
  • Micrometer theodolites, 259
  • Military sketching board, 485
  • Miners' circumferentor, 307
  • Miners' compasses: French, 336
    • hanging, 344
    • Stanley's prismatic, 343
  • Miners' dials: various, 309
  • Mining, survey lamp, 348
    • targets, 349
    • theodolite, 342
  • Morse signaling, 544
  • Mountain barometer, 550
    • theodolite, 258
  • Nautical sextant, 429
  • Needles, magnetic, 59
  • Night signalling stations, 545
  • Octant or quadrant, 422
  • Offset rods, 507
  • Omnimeter, 374
  • Opisometer, 587
  • Optical black, 582
  • Tools used in manufacture of instruments, 11
  • Triangle for levelling staff, 162
  • Tribrach adjustments, 126
    • Everest's, 272
    • with mechanical stage, 251
  • Tripods, 114, 217, 322
  • Tripods, jointed, for mining instruments, 313
  • Trough compass, 74, 83, 236
    • Vernier scale readings, 180
    • Vicat needle, 586
    • Vice for adjusting land chain, 496
    • Water levels, 146
    • Waterproof covers, 23
    • Watkin's aneroid, 567
    • Watkin's clinometer, 417
    • Wealemefna, 587
    • Webs, collecting and mounting, 51
    • Whistles, 585
    • Y-levels, 98
      • improved construction, 107

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    FOOTNOTES:

    [1] Proc. Royal Institution, vol. xi. p. 413.

    [2] See Phil. Trans. 1896, vol. 188, Map. 9.

    [3] See Simms' Mathematical Instruments, p. 3.

    [4] See pamphlet on A New Form of Levelling Instrument, by Thos. Cushing, F.R.A.S., 1879.

    [5] Patent No. 69, Wm. Barrie, 1856.

    [6] Patent No. 6742, John Browne, June, 1834.

    [7] Brit. Assoc. Report, 1838, p. 154.

    [8] Patent No. 12590, 1889.

    [9] Colliery Guardian, vol. xxxviii. p. 576, 1879.

    [10] A Treatise of the Principles and Practice of Levelling, by F. W. Simms, 1842; A Treatise on Land Surveying, by John Ainsley, revised by William Galbraith, 1849. Quite modern works—Aid to Survey Practice, L. D'A. Jackson, Crosby Lockwood, 1910; On Levelling and its General Application, by Thomas Holloway, Spon, 1887; revised 1914.

    [11] Levelling, p. 49.

    [12] Deschanel's Natural Philosophy, by Prof. Everett, p. 1018, 1876.

    [13] A Manual of Surveying for India, by Colonel H. L. Thuillier, C.S.I., F.R.S., etc., and Lieutenant-Colonel R. Smith. Thacker, Calcutta, 1875. (Now out of print).

    [14] The illustration is taken from Die geometrischen Instrumente, Dr. G. Chr. K. HunÄus. Hanover, 1864.

    [15] Digges's Pantometria, see p. 2.

    [16] Gardiner's Practical Surveying, p. 59, 1737.

    [17] Adam's Geometrical Essays, pp. 217–229, 1803.

    [18] Civil Engineers' Pocket-Book, by J. C. Trautwine, C.E.

    [19] Plate xiv., fig. 5. Geometrical Essays, Geo. Adams, 1803.

    [20] Proc. Min. Inst., Cornwall, 1883, vol. i. p. 317.

    [21] Patent No. 1592, April 1878.

    [22] Patent No. 1857, J. L Casartelli, May, 1874.

    [23] Illustrated plate xv. Fig. 1., Geometrical Essays, John Adams, 1803.

    [24] Pastorelli's patent, No. 2714, 1863.

    [25] Hoffmann's patent, No. 2084, 1878.

    [26] Geometria Subterranea, Voitel, 1686.

    [27] Subterranean Surveying, Thos. Fenwick, Lockwood.

    [28] Description and use of an Improved Reflecting and Refracting Telescope and Scales for Surveying, by William Green, 1778.

    [29] La TachÉomÈtre, ou l'Art de Lever les Plans et de Faire les Nivellements, Paris, 1858.

    [30] Tables TrigonomÉtriques CentÉsimales, by J. L. Sanguet, Paris.

    [31] Manual of the Theory and Practice of Topographical Surveying by Means of the Transit and Stadia, by J. B. Johnson. New York.

    [32] Patent, prov., No. 1859, June, 1868; patent No. 3759, Dec., 1868.

    [33] Report on Omnimeter, by Major G. A. Laughton, Superintendent, Bombay Revenue Survey.

    [34] Proc. Inst. C.E., vol. xcii. part ii. p. 248, 1887–1888.

    [35] Lister's Patent, No. 2375, 1864.

    [36] Francis Barker's patent, No. 1926, 1881.

    [37] British patent, No. 217, 1884.

    [38] Posthumous Works, p. 502; also Animadversions to the Machina CÆlestis of Helvetius, p. 49.

    [39] Phil. Trans., vol. xlii. p. 155.

    [40] Phil. Trans., vol. xxxvii. p. 147.

    [41] Ibid. p. 340.

    [42] See Nicholson's Navigator's Assistant.

    [43] Pearson's Practical Astronomy, p. 537.

    [44] Ibid. p. 577.

    [45] Gli Strumenti a Reflessione per Mesurare Angoli, by G. B. Magnaghi, 1875.

    [46] Description of a New Quadrant, by George Adams, 1748.

    [47] Adams' Geometrical Essays, edited by William Jones, 1803.

    [48] Prov. Patent No. 2624; Christopher George, 1868.

    [49] See British patents—Winter, 1760, No. 752; Ould, 1791, No. 1842; Nugent, 1794, No. 1980; Wright, 1796, No. 2081; Cook, 1796, No. 2087; Roxby, 1822, No. 4695; Glover, 1839, No. 8256; Lane, 1857, No. 1669; Rahill, 1860, No. 1845, etc.

    [50] Adams' Geometrical Essays, p. 264, 1803.

    [51] Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers, vol. xciii. part iii. paper No. 2308. See also Military Surveying in the Field, by Major The Hon. M. G. Talbot, Prof.; Papers Royal Engineers, vol. xiv. p. 25.

    [52] Patent No. 1202, D. R. Edgeworth, April 1866.

    [53] Heather's Surveying Instruments, 1870, p. 85.

    [54] The Surveyor, vol. ii. No. 5. Sydney, Nov. 1889.

    [55] Patent No. 2142, May, 1880.

    [56] Manual of Surveying for India, p. 478, 1875.

    [57] Patent No. 3390, October 1874.

    [58] For full description and plate, see Everest's Measurement of the Meridional Arc of India, Introd. p. cxv.

    [59] British patent, No. 10157, April, 1844.

    [60] British patents—No. 13332, November, 1850; and No. 682, March, 1862.

    [61] Patent, No. 13332, May, 1850.

    [62] Patent No. 3454, December, 1862.

    [63] Patent No. 3425, March, 1886.

    [64] Patent No. 2714, October, 1865.

    [65] Patent No. 12889, December, 1849.

    [66] Patent, No. 4310, November, 1876.





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