The Civil Engineer's Pocket-Book: Of Mensuration, Trigonometry, Surveying, Hydraulics ... Etc.

Before calculators, engineers laying out railway cuttings, sizing culverts or surveying land carried a book like this into the field. John Cresson Trautwine, an American civil engineer, first published his pocket-book in 1872, and it became a standard reference that was revised through many editions. Its pages are packed with tables, rules and worked methods covering mensuration, trigonometry, surveying and hydraulics, and the title signals that its coverage goes further still.

This is a modern reprint of a public domain edition, so the text keeps the look and limits of a facsimile rather than a newly edited version. It will appeal to historians of engineering, collectors of old technical books, and anyone curious about how bridges, canals and railways were worked out with pencil, paper and a good set of tables.