Architects, Engineers and Surveyors Prove the Flat Earth, Never Factor Supposed Curvature of Earth into Canals, Tunnels or Railways
The Atlantean Conspiracy: Architects & Engineers for Flat Earth Truth The Atlantean Conspiracy ✦ Exposing the 'Global' Conspiracy from Atlantis to Zion Wednesday, July 13, 2016 Architects & Engineers for Flat Earth Truth Surveyors, engineers and architects are never required to factor the supposed curvature of the Earth into their projects, providing another proof the world is a plane, not a planet. Canals and railways, for example, are always cut and laid horizontally, often over hundreds of miles, without any allowance for curvature. One surveyor, Mr. T. Westwood, wrote into the January, 1896 “Earth Review” magazine stating that, “In leveling, I work from Ordinance marks, or canal levels, to get the height above sea level. The puzzle to me used to be, that over several miles each level was and is treated throughout its whole length as the same level from end to end; not the least allowance being made for curvature. One of the civil engineers in this district, after some amount of argument on each side as to the reason why no allowance for curvature was made, said he did not believe anybody would know the shape of the earth in this life.” Another Surveyor and Engineer of thirty years wrote to the Birmingham Weekly Mercury, Feb. 15th, 1890 stating, “I am thoroughly acquainted with the theory and practice of civil engineering. However bigoted some of our professors may be in the theory of surveying according to the prescribed rules, yet it is well known amongst us that such theoretical measurements are INCAPABLE OF ANY PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION. All our locomotives are designed to run on what may be regarded as TRUE LEVELS or FLATS. There are, of course, partial inclines or gradients here and there, but they are always accurately defined and must be carefully traversed. But anything approaching to eight inches in the mile, increasing as the square of the distance, COULD NOT BE WORKED BY ANY ENGINE THAT WAS EVER YET CONSTRUCTED. Taking one station with another all over England and Scotland, it may be stated that all the platforms are ON THE SAME RELATIVE LEVEL. The distance between Eastern and Western coasts of England may be set down as 300 miles. If the prescribed curvature was indeed as represented, the central stations at Rugby or Warwick ought to be close upon three miles higher than a chord drawn from the two extremities. If such was the case there is not a driver or stoker within the Kingdom that would be found to take charge of the train. We can only laugh at those of your readers who seriously give us credit for such venturesome exploits, as running trains round spherical curves. Horizontal curves on levels are dangerous enough, vertical curves would be a thousand times worse, and with our rolling stock constructed as at present physically impossible.” Engineer, W. Winckler, wrote into the Earth Review October 1893 regarding the Earth’s supposed curvature, stating, “As an engineer of many years standing, I saw that this absurd allowance is only permitted in school books. No engineer would dream of allowing anything of the kind. I have projected many miles of railways and many more of canals and the allowance has not even been thought of, much less allowed for. This allowance for curvature means this - that it is 8” for the first mile of a canal, and increasing at the ratio by the square of the distance in miles; thus a small navigable canal for boats, say 30 miles long, will have, by the above rule an allowance for curvature of 600 feet. Think of that and then please credit engineers as not being quite such fools. Nothing of the sort is allowed. We no more think of allowing 600 feet for a line of 30 miles of railway or canal, than of wasting our time trying to square the circle” The Suez Canal which connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea is a clear proof of the Earth’s and water’s non-convexity. The canal is 100 miles long and without any locks so the water within is an uninterrupted continuation of the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. When it was constructed, the Earth’s supposed curvature was not taken into account, it was dug along a horizontal datum line 26 feet below sea-level, passing through several lakes from one sea to the other, with the datum line and the water’s surface running perfectly parallel over the 100 miles. The average level of the Mediterranean is 6 inches above the Red Sea, while the floodtides in the Red Sea rise 4 feet above the highest and drop 3 feet below the lowest in the Mediterranean, making the half-tide level of the Red Sea, the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, and the 100 miles of water in the canal, all a clear continuation of the same horizontal line! Were they instead the supposed curved line of globe-Earthers, the water in the center of the canal would be 1666 feet (502 x 8 inches = 1666 feet 8 inches) above the respective Seas on either side! “The distance between the Red Sea at Suez and the Mediterranean Sea is 100 statute miles, the datum line of the Canal being 26 feet below the level of the Mediterranean, and is continued horizontally the whole way from sea to sea, there not being a single lock on the Canal, the surface of the water being parallel with the datum line. It is thus clear that there is no curvature or globularity for the whole hundred miles between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea; had there been, according to the Astronomic theory, the middle of the Canal would have been 1,666 feet higher than at either end, whereas the Canal is perfectly horizontal for the whole distance. The Great Canal of China, said to be 700 miles in length, was made without regard to any allowance for supposed curvature, as the Chinese believe the Earth to be a Stationary Plane. I may also add that no allowance was made for it in the North Sea Canal, or in the Manchester Ship Canal, both recently constructed, thus clearly proving that there is no globularity in Earth or Sea, so that the world cannot possibly be a Planet.” -David Wardlaw Scott, “Terra Firma” (134) “If the earth be the globe of popular belief, it is very evident that in cutting a canal, an allowance must be made for the curvature of the globe, which allowance would correspond to the square of the distance multiplied by eight inches. From The Age, of 5th August 1892, I extract the following: ‘The German Emperor performed the ceremony of opening the Gates of the Baltic and North Sea Canal, in the spring of 1891. The canal starts at Holtenau, on the south side of Kiel Bay, and joins the Elbe 15 miles above its mouth. It is 61 miles long, 200 feet wide at the surface and 85 feet at the bottom, the depth being 28 feet. No locks are required, as the surface of the two seas is level.’ Let those who believe it is the practice for surveyors to make allowance for ‘curvature’ ponder over the following from the Manchester Ship Canal Company (Earth Review, October, 1893) ‘It is customary in Railway and Canal constructions for all levels to be referred to a datum which is nominally horizontal and is so shown on all sections. It is not the practice in laying out Public Works to make allowances for the curvature of the earth.” -Thomas Winship, “Zetetic Cosmogeny” (23) The London and Northwestern Railway forms a straight line 180 miles long between London and Liverpool. The railroad’s highest point, midway at Birmingham station, is only 240 feet above sea-level. If the world were actually a globe, however, curveting 8 inches per mile squared, the 180 mile stretch of rail would form an arc with the center point at Birmingham raising a full 5,400 feet above London and Liverpool. Adding the station’s actual height (240 feet) to its theoretical inclination (5,400 feet) gives 5,640 feet as the rail’s necessary height on a globe-Earth, more than a thousand feet taller than Ben Nevis, the tallest mountain in Great Britain! “In projecting railways on a globe, the datum line would be the arc of a circle corresponding to the latitude of the place. That the datum line for the railway projections is always a horizontal line, proves that the general configuration of the world is horizontal. To support the globe theory, the gentlemen of the observatories should call upon the surveyor to prove that he allows the necessary amount for ‘curvature.’ But this is what the learned men dare not do, as it is well-known that the allowance for the supposed curvature is never made.” -Thomas Winship, “Zetetic Cosmogeny” (107) “In a long line, like that of the Great Pacific Railway, extending across North America, the supposed curvature would, of course, be proportionately great, extending to many miles in height, but not one inch was allowed by the engineers for curvature during the whole course of the construction of that vast line of Railway. And, if we think of it, how could it be otherwise? All Railway metals must, of necessity, be straight, for how could any engine or carriage run with safety on a convex surface?” -David Wardlaw Scott, “Terra Firma” (125) J.C. Bourne in his book, “The History of the Great Western Railway” stated that the entire original English railroad, more than 118 miles long, that the whole line with the exception of the inclined planes, may be regarded practically as level. The British Parliament Session in 1862 that approved its construction recorded in Order No. 44 for the proposed railway, “That the section be drawn to the same HORIZONTAL scale as the plan, and to a vertical scale of not less than one inch to every one hundred feet, and shall show the surface of the ground marked on the plan, the intended level of the proposed work, the height of every embankment, and the depth of every cutting, and a DATUM HORIZONTAL LINE which shall be the same throughout the whole length of the work.” “One hundred and eighteen miles of LEVEL railway, and yet the surface on which it is projected a globe? Impossible. It cannot be. Early in 1898 I met Mr. Hughes, chief officer of the steamer ‘City of Lincoln.’ This gentleman told me he had projected thousands of miles of level railway in South America, and never heard of any allowance for curvature being made. On one occasion he surveyed over one thousand miles of railway which was a perfect straight line all the way. It is well known that in the Argentine Republic and other parts of South America, there are railways thousands of miles long without curve or gradient. In projecting railways, the world is acknowledged to be a plane, and if it were a globe the rules of projection have yet to be discovered. Level railways prove a level world, to the utter confusion of the globular school of impractical men with high salaries and little brains.” -Thomas Winship, “Zetetic Cosmogeny” (109) “That in all surveys no allowance is made for curvature, which would be a necessity on a globe; that a horizontal line is in every case the datum line, the same line being continuous throughout the whole length of the work; and that the theodolite cuts a line at equal altitudes on either side of it, which altitude is the same as that of the instrument, clearly proves, to those who will accept proof when it is furnished, that the world is a plane and not a globe.” -Thomas Winship, “Zetetic Cosmogeny” (126) Buy The Flat Earth Conspiracy 252-Page Paperback, eBook, or ePub Posted by Eric Dubay at 8:28 AM Labels: Flat Earth 52 comments: swaan said... Hey Eric,I love reading your stuff but I am not concluding anything yet :)I have a situation that I can't fit into the flat earth theory. It could be that distance isn't what we believe it is or that the maps a flawed. Anyway, flight routes. There are direct flights between Sydney and Santiago, Chile. Also Sydney and Los Angeles. If we are on a flat plane then how are the flights to Santiago shorter in duration than to LA? Thanks.My current findings suggest that the Earth is neither flat nor spherical but something "in between" - a hologram :) May 28, 2015 at 10:43 PM Anonymous said... Eric, The ranger is launching a new search engine, you may be interested in placing your site on..http://www.naturalnews.com/049874_GoodGopher_Good_Gopher_search_engine_New_Media.htmlit is generating a whole lot of interest at the moment.... May 29, 2015 at 12:31 AM Anonymous said... It is theology that interests me along this line of enquiry. If we concede, for the sake of discussion, that the earth is some kind of plane of existence and not spherical; then we can start to deduce certain things. First, though, this doesn't really tell us much about god or what god may be. It does seem to create a dilemma for the idea of god, though; it seems that god doesn't mind too much that lying thieves and drunkin' braggarts have taken over this plane of existence and are lying about the nature of reality at an unprecedented threshold or level. Is god inept and weak and unable to police its planes of existence? But, then, why the need to lie at this threshold if god is nothing more than an impersonal ocean of emptiness like the Buddhists say, or Vedanta; or for that matter the Deists? I mean, if my understanding of who I am here has no lasting significance and I simply disappear into a non personal ocean of bliss ( or whatever), I really can't see the reason for a lie of this significance . That stream of thinking doesn't really answer what is going on here and really, again, that system of theology isn't really a threat to anyone and once again I see no need to lie about reality if that was the truth about life. But if there are multiple planes of existence with thrones and principalities and powers; well then, that ups the ante; and starts to become somewhat more plausible as an explanation for what is going on here if the earth is flat. The mythology of the Nephilim was common knowledge at the time of The Christ. Jesus referenced this phenomenon and the people of his day believed that the ruling elite were the offspring of the Nephilim. Obviously, the way this drama played out changed over time as there is no reference to them being giants during the Roman era. It may be that there is generational genetic manipulation happening throughout the bloodlines of human/angel offspring. It may be that the original angels that transgressed are still in prison and humans and god are dealing with the consequences of bad decisions by small groups of principalities. This idea would seem to suggest some kind of redeeming attempt over time with the souls of the hybrids. This idea goes to the seeming non-intervention of god. Or maybe all of this is being authored by god : the evil as well as the good and that certainly is a difficult thing for humans to wrap their head around. I don't know but I do know that there is just one way to stand and far too many ways to fall. May 29, 2015 at 10:34 PM Anonymous said... I've been following closely and it's been quite an adventure of what I think I know and what I do know. I have run against this tho. Measuring distances at differ t latitudes via googling them...at 33S Sydney- buenos aires 11800 km to cape town 6865, back to Sydney 11003 for 29668 km. ...at 60 N st Petersburg - Kamchatka 6669, to Whitehorse 3664, to qaqortoq 4456 to st Pete 3963 is 18752.... But at 0 L Singapore to Quito 19717, to entebbe 12327 to Singapore 7943 is 39987km. So it's bulging at center? Is there something I'm missing here? May 30, 2015 at 7:52 AM Bob said... To the theology question posed above: don't you think it is certainly possible that everything as it currently is on earth is done that way INTENTIONALLY by God? Maybe the whole point is to test you, your integrity, and whittle away at the parts of you that will be humbled thru this experience. I think we are tested on how we react to everything, and if we pass, well we have proved ourselves worthy of more. May 30, 2015 at 8:55 AM Unknown said... Profesional proof testifying that the earth is not a curved ball. May 30, 2015 at 11:10 AM simski said... Hello Eric,Thank you for this excellent article. Your hard work is very much appreciated. I do have also a comment about your ifers site which I find myself avoiding because almost every thread seems to deteriorate into an accusatory battle to out the suspected globist troll quickly and rudely. I am sure others feel the same way especially those who have not been carefully inured to this behavior which began during the early internet days as "the right to say what you think". Trolls driving people off forums has always been a problem. One solution seems to be to quickly move any thread whose original content deteriorates into a section called "controversy, trolls, etc" even if the original content is valuable. I also would watch those members who habitually involve themselves in "troll outing" before I decide who the real troll is.Again, thanks so much for your excellent research.Rosemary May 30, 2015 at 4:55 PM Anonymous said... Well, I have done lots of surveying. I have done sections of road up to five miles long. No, I have never made a correction for the curvature of the Earth either. But one does not need to for your instrument, as long as it levels with a liquid bubble, will do the correction for you. Surveyors are always taught to carry grade by taking equidistant shots behind you as well as in front of you. This insures that you carry the grade perpendicular to the plumb of the gravitational pull towards the center of the Earth or at a tangent to the Earth's surface. So each time you move your instrument you are projecting straight lines with ever-so-gentle breaks at each shot or benchmark. Clodia May 30, 2015 at 5:35 PM Anonymous said... @ Anonymous - May 29, 2015 at 10:34 PMTo get answers to your questions, read the book Why We Are Born by Akemi G. You might also want to check out Shawn Pereira on Facebook. May 30, 2015 at 7:43 PM Anonymous said... @ Bob. Ultimately, i think that is true in a non-dual kind of way; although the multifarious manifestations of evil on this planet lead me to suppose some kind of left and right hand protocols, especially with the problem of evil spanning millennia. So, yes, if one is able to abide by the right hand protocols ( purity /sattva, etc) then one may stay clear of unnecessary suffering. But for those unable to do that then I think, maybe, one defaults into the left hand protocols . Apparently, this age is the left hands protocols kingdom. i can deduce from that that very few are able to abide by the right hand protocols. Something about entering through the eye of the needle. But hey, the left hand gave us modal bebop scales so it can't be all bad. Maybe the right hand bored god and he is utterly fascinated with the way the left hand kingdom has played out:) See the Book of Job……Or as i call it : Get a Job….. May 30, 2015 at 11:36 PM Anonymous said... @ AnonymousI had no question. I just explained why all of the surveyors in the article never needed to do a correction for the curvature of the Earth. Clodia May 31, 2015 at 4:34 AM Anonymous said... a bit more @ Bob: let's suppose that somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 million 2 year olds have died in every horrible way imaginable since the beginning of heliocentric model ( the exact number is not revenant here) Now what possible lesson have these 5 million babies failed to learn? The point being is that there are logical problems with the idea you proposed; although the problems are not insurmountable. At first glance it would seem that god cares not one little bit about the pain and suffering of these babies. Or, secondly, god is impersonal and life on a large scale is the only thing guaranteed to exist over time; here there is no guarantee … truncated (31,946 more characters in archive)