Category Archives: Survey Artifact Collection
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, Surveyor’s, Feet
Steel band tapes, when introduced, were called chains and the act of measuring using a...
Tapes, Surveyor’s, Link
This chain is calibrated in links on one side and in feet on the other.
Tapes, Surveyor’s, 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...
Theodolites
The term “theodolite” can be traced back to the sixteenth century in Europe. Although there...
Total Stations
A few years after the introduction of electronic distance measuring instruments (EDMs) many companies made...