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Topographical surveying

Here are entered works on the techniques of topographical surveying in general and as practiced in particular geographic localities. Works presenting the results of topographical surveys are entered under the name of the place surveyed with the subdivision Surveys.

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• Military engineering
• Surveying

• Military field engineering

• Military topography

• Notice sur les Travaux Scientifiques (in French; Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1883), by A. Laussedat (page images in France)

• From the Golden Gate to Mexico City: The U.S. Army Topographical Engineers in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 (1993), by Adrian George Traas (PDF at US Army CMH)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Trench Warfare (Menasha, WI: G. Banta Pub. Co., c1917), by James A. Moss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hand-Book of Field Fortifications and Artillery; Also Manual for Light and Heavy Artillery (Richmond, VA: J.W. Randolph, 1861), by Egbert L. Viele
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Treatise on Field Fortification, Containing Instructions on the Methods of Laying Out, Constructing, Defending, and Attacking Intrenchments; With the General Outlines Also of the Arrangement, the Attack And Defence of Permanent Fortifications (third edition, revised and enlarged; New York: J. Wiley, 1856), by D. H. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on Field Fortification, Containing Instructions on the Methods of Laying Out, Constructing, Defending, and Attacking Intrenchments; With the General Outlines Also of the Arrangement, the Attack And Defence of Permanent Fortifications (third edition, revised and enlarged; New York: J. Wiley, 1860), by D. H. Mahan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise on Field Fortification, Containing Instructions on the Methods of Laying Out, Constructing, Defending, and Attacking Intrenchments; With the General Outlines Also of the Arrangement, the Attack And Defence of Permanent Fortifications (fourth edition; Richmond, VA: West and Johnston, 1862), by D. H. Mahan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Tanks in The Great War, 1914-1918 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1920), by J. F. C. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Organizational Maintenance Manual, Tank, Combat, Full Tracked: 105-mm Gun, M60A3 (2350-00-148-6548) and (2350-01-061-2306) TTS Turret (Technical manual 9-2350-253-10, revised reprint of a manual originally published in 1980; Washington: Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1992), by United States Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• Organizational Maintenance Manual, Tank, Combat, Full Tracked: 105-mm Gun, M60A3 (2350-00-148-6548) and (2350-01-061-2306) TTS Turret (Technical manual 9-2350-253-10, revised reprint of a manual originally published in 1980; Washington: Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1992), by United States Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Road to Damascus (included on the Ghost Baen CD image), by John Ringo and Linda Evans
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 162 MB

• Tanks and Industry: The Detroit Arsenal, 1940-1954 (Warren, MI: History Office, U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command, 1995), by Kevin Thornton and Dale Prentiss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tom Swift and His War Tank, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)

• Organizational Maintenance Manual, Tank, Combat, Full Tracked: 105-mm Gun, M60A3 (2350-00-148-6548) and (2350-01-061-2306) TTS Turret (Technical manual 9-2350-253-10, revised reprint of a manual originally published in 1980; Washington: Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1992), by United States Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• Organizational Maintenance Manual, Tank, Combat, Full Tracked: 105-mm Gun, M60A3 (2350-00-148-6548) and (2350-01-061-2306) TTS Turret (Technical manual 9-2350-253-10, revised reprint of a manual originally published in 1980; Washington: Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 1992), by United States Department of the Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notice sur les Travaux Scientifiques (in French; Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1883), by A. Laussedat (page images in France)

• Rivista di Artiglieria e Genio (partial serial archives)

• Geschichte des Königlichen Sächsichen Ingenieur- und Pionier-Korps (Pionier-Bataillons Nr. 12) (in German; Dresden: Selbstverlag des Bataillons Erschienen, 1898), by Premier-Lieutenant Hansch, illust. by Gustav Müller
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Heidelberg: Its Princes and its Palaces (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Elizabeth Godfrey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Castles in the Far East: The U.S. Carmy Corps of Engineers Okinawa and Japan Districts, 1945-1990 (1990), by Gretchen Charles Greeson (page imagest at US Army Corps of Engineers)

• The Military Engineer (partial serial archives)
• Rivista di Artiglieria e Genio (partial serial archives)
• Professional Memoirs (Corps of Engineers, United States Army and Engineer Department at Large) (full serial archives)

• Adjusting to a New Security Environment: The Defense Technology and Industrial Base Challenge (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• High Power Microwaves: Strategic and Operational Implications for Warfare (Occasional Paper #11; Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Center for Strategy and Technology, Air War College, Air University, 2000), by Eileen M. Walling
  • PDF at webharvest.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Letter to the Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of War, Presenting for His Consideration a New Plan for the Fortification of Certain Points of the Seacoast of the United States (Washington: W. A. Harris, 1858), by James St. C. Morton (multiple formats at Google)
• The Battle of the Swash and the Capture of Canada (New York: C. T. Dillingham, c1888), by Samuel Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Installation and Maintenance of Fire Control Systems at Seacoast Fortifications, 1914 (corrected to April 15, 1917; Washington: GPO, 1917), by United States Army Signal Corps (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letter to the Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of War, Presenting for His Consideration a New Plan for the Fortification of Certain Points of the Seacoast of the United States (Washington: W. A. Harris, 1858), by James St. C. Morton (multiple formats at Google)
• Memoir on American Fortification: Submitted to the Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of War (Washington: W. A. Harris, 1859), by James St. C. Morton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Memoir on the Dangers and Defences of New York City: Addressed to the Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of War (Washington: W. A. Harris, 1858), by James St. C. Morton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)

• Installation and Maintenance of Fire Control Systems at Seacoast Fortifications, 1914 (corrected to April 15, 1917; Washington: GPO, 1917), by United States Army Signal Corps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Condition Red: Marine Defense Battalions in World War II, by Charles D. Melson (illustrated HTML at Ibiblio)

• The Unintended Consequences of Information Age Technologies (1996), by David S. Alberts (page images at Google)

• A Treatise on Field Fortification, Containing Instructions on the Methods of Laying Out, Constructing, Defending, and Attacking Intrenchments; With the General Outlines Also of the Arrangement, the Attack And Defence of Permanent Fortifications (third edition, revised and enlarged; New York: J. Wiley, 1856), by D. H. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on Field Fortification, Containing Instructions on the Methods of Laying Out, Constructing, Defending, and Attacking Intrenchments; With the General Outlines Also of the Arrangement, the Attack And Defence of Permanent Fortifications (third edition, revised and enlarged; New York: J. Wiley, 1860), by D. H. Mahan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise on the Science of War and Fortification: Composed for the Use of the Imperial Polytechnick School, and Military Schools, and Translated for the War Department, for the Use of the Military Academy of the United States (2 volumes; New York: Printed by J. Seymour, 1817), by Simon Gay de Vernon, trans. by John Michael O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Condition Red: Marine Defense Battalions in World War II, by Charles D. Melson (illustrated HTML at Ibiblio)
• Trattato di Architettura Civile e Militare (in Italian; Turin: Tip. Chirio e Mina, 1841), by Francesco di Giorgio Martini, ed. by Carlo Promis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Infrared Handbook (1978), by Environmental Research Institute of Michigan Infrared Information and Analysis Center, ed. by William L. Wolfe and George John Zissis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Project Cyclops (c1992), by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)

• High Power Microwaves: Strategic and Operational Implications for Warfare (Occasional Paper #11; Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Center for Strategy and Technology, Air War College, Air University, 2000), by Eileen M. Walling
  • PDF at webharvest.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• American Railways in War (1917), by W. H. Williams (page images here at Penn)

• A Treatise on Field Fortification, Containing Instructions on the Methods of Laying Out, Constructing, Defending, and Attacking Intrenchments; With the General Outlines Also of the Arrangement, the Attack And Defence of Permanent Fortifications (third edition, revised and enlarged; New York: J. Wiley, 1856), by D. H. Mahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on Field Fortification, Containing Instructions on the Methods of Laying Out, Constructing, Defending, and Attacking Intrenchments; With the General Outlines Also of the Arrangement, the Attack And Defence of Permanent Fortifications (third edition, revised and enlarged; New York: J. Wiley, 1860), by D. H. Mahan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise on Field Fortification, Containing Instructions on the Methods of Laying Out, Constructing, Defending, and Attacking Intrenchments; With the General Outlines Also of the Arrangement, the Attack And Defence of Permanent Fortifications (fourth edition; Richmond, VA: West and Johnston, 1862), by D. H. Mahan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Route Surveying (third edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1949), by George Wellington Pickels and Carroll Carson Wiley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Rückwärtseinschneiden im Raum (dissertation in German; Zürich: A.-G. Gebr. Leemann und Co., 1933), by Gustav Volkart (PDF at ETH Zurich)
• Handbuch des Feldmessens und Nivellirens in Gewöhnlichen Fällen (in German; Berlin: G. Reimer, 1826), by A. L. Crelle (page images in Germany)
• A Manual of Surveying for India: Detailing the Mode of Operations on the Revnue Surveys in Bengal and the North-Western Provinces (Kolkata and London: W. Thacker and Co., 1851), by R. Smyth and H. L. Thuillier (multiple formats at Google)
• A Manual of Surveying for India: Detailing the Mode of Operations on the Trigonometrical, Topographical and Revenue Surveys of India (third edition; Kolkata: Thacker, Spink and Co.; et al., 1875), by H. L. Thuillier and R. Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.