Excerpt from Surveyor's Hand Book, 1908 One of the best forms of steel tapes for railroad or city engi neers and surveyors is about 174 in. Wide and has the numbers for the different foot-marks stamped on solder which adheres to the tape. This form of tape has the advantage of not having a shoulder or projection to catch against the reel when the tape is being wound up or run out, or to catch on stones or other rough objects while in use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.