2012.007

Lukacs, Claire

Gift

Museum Collections. Gift of a Friend of the Museum.

Cox, William, Editor

Keuffel & Esser Co.

1891 - 1892

English

Date: 1891-1892 Copy No.: 1

Notes: PDF for all three published volumes may be found at : http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Compass_A_monthly_journal_for_engine.html?id=F8pIAAAAMAAJ Title: The Compass. A monthly journal for engineers, surveyors, architects, draughtsmen, and student ..., Volumes 1-3 Publisher: Keuffel & Esser co., 1891 Original from the University of Michigan Digitized: Sept. 10, 2007 ________________ Text of index for Volume I as found on preliminary pages [ii-v] in the copy here, 2012.007.0075 INDEX. ACCURACY of Slide Rule Computations ..................... 124 Adder, Webb's .............................................. 103 Adding Machine, Universal ................................... 101 Adjustments of Surveying Instruments ......................... 41 Arithmethical Mean ........................................21, 56 Arithmethical Progression ..................................10, 56 Assortment of Handy Instruments for the Draughting Room. 113, 149, 168 Average Steam Pressure ....................................17, 44 Average Steam Pressure and H. P. Indicator ..................... 52 BEAM Compasses ...........................................169 Blue Process Paper ........................................... 60 Books, New .......................................7, 48, 119, 167 Both's Section Liner .........................................189 Boucher Calculator ........................................... 82 Bubble Measurements . .....................................104 CAN Aluminum be advantageously employed in the construction of Geodetic Instruments? 8 Celluloid .................................................... 67 Centrolinead, The ............................................ 13 Charpentier Calculator ........................................ 81 " Comfort " Drawing Table ....................................151 " Columbia " Indelible Liquid Inks ............................. 24 Compass for a Watch ........................................ 93 Compass Variations .......................................... 2 ENGINEERING and Surveying Instruments. 3, 19, 35, 49, 68, 84, 104, 115, 141, 156, 172, 180 " Excelsior " Steel Tapes ...................................... 34 Extension Tripod, A New ..................................... 16 FINDING the Decimal Point in using the Slide Rule .............137 Formula for Delivery of Pumps ................................ 16 Fuller's Spiral Slide Rule ....................................... 66 GEOMETRICAL Mean ...................................21, 57 Geometrical Progression ....................................10, 57 Gradienter Attachment, The ..........................115, 141, 156 Gradienter Tables ...................................156, 172, 180 HELIOGRAPHIC Paper .................................... 60 How to determine the Position of Vanishing Points in Perspective Drawing 98 IMPROVED Leveling Target ................................125 Influence of the Moon on the Barometer ........................183 Instrument Adjustments ...................................... 41 Inverted Scale .............................................. 58 Is the Mariner's Compass a Chinese Invention? .................. 76 LATITUDE and Departure with the Slide Rule .................. 75 Leveling Target, Improved ....................................125 Linear Measurements in the Field .............................. 33 Linear Measurements in the Office ............................. 53 Logarithmic Spiral Curve, The .........................44, 129, 152 Logarithms ...............................................11, 22 MAGNETIC Pole, To find ....................................169 Metric System ............................... ........121, 139 NEW Books ......................................7, 48, 119, 167 ODOMETER, The ........................................... 95 PANTOGRAPH,The ........................................ 77 Paper, Blue Process or Heliographic ............................ 60 Paper, Universal Drawing ..................................... 6 " Paragon " Drawing Instruments ............................... 6 " Paragon " Scales ........................................... 54 Passometer, The ............................................ 95 Pedometer, The ............................................. 94 Planimeter, The Polar ...............................145, 162, 184 Position Finding ............................................. 88 Principle of the Slide Rule, The one great ....................... 15 Prognostics, Weather .........................................112 Proportion .................................................. 22 Proportional Dividers ..... ............................30, 46, 108 Pump Indicator, The ......................................... 12 RATIO and Proportion ...................................... 22 Readers, To our ...................................1, 40, 120, 136 Relation of Drawing to General Education .......................176 Rollers for Targets ..........................................126 Round Writing ..............................................170 SAEGMULLER Solar Attachment ............................ 97 Scales, Paragon .............................................. 54 Scientific Progress in 1891 ....................................126 Section Liner, Both's ................... .....................189 Series of Numbers, and their application to Scientific Purposes. 9, 21, 37, 56, 72, 90, 107, 129, 152, 177 Sines and Tangents on the Slide Rule ........................... 74 Slide, The inverted ........................................... 58 Slide Rule, The .....................................37, 56, 72, 90 Slide Rule Computations, The accuracy of ................ .....124 Slide Rule, The " Duplex " ............................63, 80 Slopes and Angles ................ ......................... 90 Slope Stake Setter, A new ..................................... 25 Solar Attachment, The Saegmuller .............................. 97 Speedy Calculators. - Average Steam Pressure .................................... 17 - Boucher Calculator, The .................................... 82 - Charpentier Calculator, The ................................. 81 - Logarithmic Spiral Curve, The ............................... 44 - Polar Planimeter, The ..............................145, 162, 184 - Pump Indicator, The ................................... 11 - Steam Pressure and H. P. Indicator ........................... 52 - Thacher Calculating Instrument .............................. 65 - Trigonometer, The .........................................133 - Universal Adding Machine .................................101 - Webb's Adder ...................................103 Spirograph, The ............................ 89 Stadia Calculations with the Slide Rule .......................... 91 Stadia Hairs ................................................ 86 Stadia Slide Rule, The ....................................... 92 Steam Pressure and H. P. Indicator ............................ 52 Steam Pressure, Average, how to calculate ....................17, 44 Steel Tape for Measuring Distances and Circumferences ...........179 TABLES : — Gradienter ..............................156, 172, 180 - Paces converted into Miles................. 96 Tapes, Steel ............................................... 34 Thacher Calculating Instrument................................ 65 To our Patrons and Readers........................1, 40, 120, 136 Transit, The................................................ 3 - Bubble Measurements......................................104 - Centre Clamps............................................ 19 - Centres, The.............................................. 4 - Compass.................................................. 49 - Eye piece prism....................................... 107 - Gradienter Attachment.............................115, 141, 156 - Horizontal Limb, The....................................20, 36 - Leveling Plates........................................... 7 - Standards, The............................................ 50 - Stadia Hairs..............................................56 - Telescopes............................................51, 68 - Variation Plate......................................... 50 - Verniers, The............................................. 35 - Vertical Limb, The.......................................106 Trigonometer, The...........................................133 UNIVERSAL Adding Machine..............................101 " Universal " Drawing Paper................................. 6 VANISHING Points in Perspective Drawing......... ........ 98 Verniers .................................................. 28 WARD'S Engineer's Tape....................................161 Weather Prognostics..........................................112 Webb's Adder...............................................103 Whetstones........................................... 87 COMPLETE COPIES of the first Volume of "THE COMPASS" can be had, bound in cloth, for $1.75 each, postage prepaid. 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