Author: New York (N.Y.). Estimate and Apportionment, Board of. Office of the Chief EngineerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Precise Leveling in N.Y.C. Executed 1909 to 1914
Author: New York (N.Y.). Estimate and Apportionment, Board of. Office of the Chief EngineerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Precise Leveling in New York City
Author: New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and ApportionmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bench-marks
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Precise Leveling in New York City, by Frederick W. Koop, Assistant Engineer, Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Executed 1909 to 1914.
Author: York (N y. ). New York (N y. ).Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418187675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Precise Leveling in New York City, by Frederick W. Koop, Assistant Engineer, Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Executed 1909 To 1914
Author: Frederick W. KoopPublisher:
ISBN: 9781418171292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor
Author: Marguerite HollowayPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393089800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
"Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway’s biography tells his life with great skill." —Steve Weinberg, USA Today John Randel Jr. (1787–1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan’s development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel’s engrossing and dramatic life story for the first time, this eye-opening biography introduces an unheralded pioneer of American engineering and mapmaking. Charged with “gridding” what was then an undeveloped, hilly island, Randel recorded the contours of Manhattan down to the rocks on its shores. He was obsessed with accuracy and steeped in the values of the Enlightenment, in which math and science promised dominion over nature. The result was a series of maps, astonishing in their detail and precision, which undergird our knowledge about the island today. During his varied career Randel created surveying devices, designed an early elevated subway, and proposed a controversial alternative route for the Erie Canal—winning him admirers and enemies. The Measure of Manhattan is more than just the life of an unrecognized engineer. It is about the ways in which surveying and cartography changed the ground beneath our feet. Bringing Randel’s story into the present, Holloway travels with contemporary surveyors and scientists trying to envision Manhattan as a wild island once again. Illustrated with dozens of historical images and antique maps, The Measure of Manhattan is an absorbing story of a fascinating man that captures the era when Manhattan—indeed, the entire country—still seemed new, the moment before canals and railroads helped draw a grid across the American landscape.
Bulletin (1901-195 )
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Supreme Court of the State of New York
Author: Bulletin of the Brooklyn Public Library
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Quarterly Bulletin
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Brooklyn Public Library News Bulletin
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description