Category Archives: Survey Artifact Collection

Plane Table

Plane table, tripod, box and two caps for tripod head.

Alidade, K&E

Alidade, Keuffel & Esser Co., Serial No. 103971 matching tripod and plane table ALSA 2012.02.02.

Plane Table, Compass, Trough

12 cm long X 1.5 X 1.7 cm. Lever to lock compass needle on side.

Alidade, W. & L.E. Gurley

Alidade, W. & L. E. Gurley

Radiophones

Radiophone, also known as a radiotelephone, is a device that uses radio waves to transmit...

Stereoscopes

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

Tapes, Foot

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

Tapes, Link

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

Tapes, Metre

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

Tapes, Standard

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