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Radiophone, Cantel

Portable "CANTEL" phone. Plastic black hand-held receiver and speaker (21 cm (l) X 5.5 cm...

Radiophone, GE

Vehicle mounted GE Cellular Phone and accessories (all black) are in a cardboard box.

Watch, Sidereal

Pocket chronometers or pocket watches with tourbillons or carousels form, in the large family of...

Transits

The transit was fundamentally a theodolite in which its telescope could be completely rotated 360...

Total Stations

A few years after the introduction of electronic distance measuring instruments (EDMs) many companies made...

Tapes, Standard

The Alberta Land Surveyor had a standard chain to which the field chains were frequently...

Tapes, Metre

Land surveyors in Canada for decades before the 1970s had been used to working in...

Tapes, Link

This chain is calibrated in links on one side and in feet on the other.

Tapes, Foot

Steel band tapes, when introduced, were called chains and the act of measuring using a...

Stereoscopes

With the advent of aerial photography land surveyors, foresters and others could view three-dimensional topography...