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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...and bidding has grown apace and mere "guesBes" seldom land work which can be called profitable. It therefore has become absolutely necessary that the estimating department of any contracting firm, which expects to stay in business for any length of time, should have at its disposal complete information regarding various kinds of equipment. The object of this book is to furnish this information to contractors in the most desirable form--that is, as regards cost, capacity, operating expense and adaptability to conditions governing the work. It is of course impossible to automatically tell the contractor what equipment to u.'e, but it is possible to give him the data in tangible form with the "chaff" of ordinary advertising literature removed. In this the author has succeeded, to say the least, and the book bids fair to rival the now famous Gillette's "Handbook of Cost Data" in its particular field. The subject matter is treated alphabetically, which facilitates the easy use of the book. Practically every type of equipment used in contracting is treated and the text is amplified by many illustrations and tables. For the man who has to buy, sell or use construction plant this book will prove invaluable, in fact it might be called the ' Contractors' Baedeker.' SURVEYING MANUAL. By Howard Chapin Ives. Flexible leather, 4%x6% in. 290 pages, 82 illustrations and plates, and 13 good tables. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. A very good manual of plane surveying designed particularly for the use of first year students in surveying, and especially for the use of non-civil engineering students. Methods of surveying, tabulating in field books and types of instruments necessary are plainly demonstrated and illustrated. The ...
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