5 mi) wide, rising to 1,035 metres (3,396 ft) between Misty Pass and Theodolite Hill, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The plateau rises south of Schmidt...

ending in View Point. Situated 8.95 kilometres (5.56 mi) southeast of Theodolite Hill and 6.79 kilometres (4.22 mi) west of View Point. Named after the settlement...

They use equipment, such as total stations, robotic total stations, theodolites, GNSS receivers, retroreflectors, 3D scanners, lidar sensors, radios...

relative to one another are determined using a tacheometer (a form of theodolite). It is used without a chain or tape for distance measurement and without...

apparatus. Survey Lab: The survey lab has a collection of transit theodolites, electronic theodolite, dumpy levels, engineering chains, measuring tapes, plane...

Soldiers' Lump. According to Wainwright the support timbers for the Ramsden theodolite, used by the Royal Engineers in the original Ordnance Survey which began...

used to support any one of a number of surveying instruments, such as theodolites, total stations, levels or transits. The modern sturdy, but portable...

called stadia lines or stadia hairs, are crosshairs on the reticle of a theodolite or other surveying instrument that allow stadiametric rangefinding. The...

The theodolite was the largest ever constructed but, despite its massive size, it was carried from London to the Channel coast and employed on hills, steeples...

positions for the cast iron columns; these points were then set precisely by theodolite measurements. Then the concrete foundations were poured, and the base...

eyepiece of an optical device such as a telescopic sight, spotting scope, theodolite, optical microscope or the screen of an oscilloscope, to provide measurement...

meanings. Normal-section azimuth is the angle measured at our viewpoint by a theodolite whose axis is perpendicular to the surface of the spheroid; geodetic azimuth...

read 26,800 ft (8,169 m), a height later rectified and confirmed by a theodolite as 26,980 ft (8,225 m), a new world altitude record. They began their...

micrometers to measure to fine tolerances, on sextants for navigation, on theodolites in surveying, and generally on scientific instruments. The Vernier principle...

corner of a Principal Triangle. The Ordnance Survey's high precision theodolite was not taken to the summit until 1841. (Scroll left or right) As the...

bulky theodolites made by William Carey, a zenith sector made by Jesse Ramsden, and 100-foot (30 m) chains. Later surveys used more compact theodolites. Accurate...

metal plate on the top of a pillar may provide a mounting point for a theodolite or reflector, often using some form of kinematic coupling to ensure reproducible...

rough terrain thereafter serving as the reference line for instrumental (theodolite) triangulations. The rod as a survey measure was standardized by Edmund...

on the Telegrafenberg hill. Exhibition 2017 (selection) Surveyor's wheel, London (around 1760) Historical universal theodolite, Pistor & Martins, Berlin...

Greenwich Observatory with the Paris Observatory; a 36-inch (0.91 m) theodolite (now in London's Science Museum) was temporarily installed on its roof...

(1735–1800) was the British designer and producer of highly accurate sextants, theodolites and other instruments. Piazzi discovered Ceres using the Ramsden vertical...

Reconnaissance of survey stations was commenced in 1935, using Tavistock theodolites to confirm the inter-visibility of stations. Survey of the triangulation...

were timber posts, only remnants of which survive, erected to support a theodolite which measured vertical and horizontal lines. At Townsville and Thursday...

curvature, curve setting can be easily done with the help of a transit or theodolite and a chain, tape, or rope of a prescribed length. The usual distance...

Starting in southern India, the survey teams moved northward using giant theodolites, each weighing 500 kg (1,100 lb) and requiring 12 men to carry, to measure...

about the technical aspects of astronomical sightings and how to use a theodolite. In 1938 with a group of six scouts, Richmond took Beadell to Lord Howe...

Allegheny Mountains, which had probably diverted the plumb lines of the theodolites and the liquids inside spirit levels. Prompted by this news, a further...

point under location using theodolites provides more accurate results, with trig beacons erected on high points and hills to enable quick and unambiguous...

S. Marratt exhibited a five-foot achromatic telescope and a transit theodolite used in surveying, tunnelling, and for astronomical purposes. Asprey exhibited...

chronometers and the distance between the Moon and the Sun followed by theodolite triangulations or bearings taken from the ship, the same as those taken...