Construction and Mining
- Construction surveying, the locating of structures relative to a reference line, used in the construction of buildings, roads, mines, and tunnels
- Deviation survey, used in the oil industry to measure a borehole's departure from the vertical
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“There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face:
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)