York Herald Saturday 25th November 1865
We (Bombay Builder) have had the pleasure of seeing a most
compact and useful clinometer and manufactured by Messrs T Cooke & Sons
London and York.
We understand the government intends to issue them to the
public works department; and we have every reason to believe that the
instrument will be generally made use of by the railway and other professional
men for trial work.
A gentleman who has used the instrument says, “It is
impossible to over rate the advantage of this instrument, A trial path, which
would have required weeks to set out by chain and level as it would have been
necessary to cut down the jungle and make platforms for the instrument to stand
on, was marked out in a few days and with quite as much accuracy.
The only mistakes that can arise are from the accidental
slipping of one of the cross pieces, or from moving one of the radial arms of
the instrument. It is only requisite to take a glance at the face of the
instrument while the hand rests upon the cross piece, to ensure its accuracy.
The ease and quickness with which the instrument was used made the marking out
of the trail path a pleasure to the observer, who would feel like Pegasus
deprived of his wings if he had to do another under similar circumstances with
level and chain instead of clinometer.
Note
A Clinometer is an
instrument used to measure angles in particular the angle of a slope or incline
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