Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone A Biographical Sketch
Part 2. Land Surveying; comprising General
Observations--The Chain--Offsets Surveying by the Chain only--Surveying Hilly Ground--To Survey an Estate or Parish by the Chain only--Surveying with the Theodolite--Mining and Town Surveying--Railroad Surveying--Mapping--Division and Laying out of Land--Observations on Enclosures--Plane Trigonometry.