A theodolite (/θiˈɒdəˌlaɪt/) is a precision optical instrument for measuring angles between designated visible points in the horizontal and vertical planes...
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Ramsden surveying instruments (redirect from Ramsden theodolite)
carried out in the period 1784 to 1853. This includes the five great theodolites—great in name, great in size and great in accuracy—used in surveys of...
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Temporary adjustments are a set of operations which are performed on a theodolite to make it ready for taking observations. These include its initial setting...
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The permanent adjustments of theodolites are made to establish fixed relationship between the instrument's fundamental lines. The fundamental lines or...
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They use equipment, such as total stations, robotic total stations, theodolites, GNSS receivers, retroreflectors, 3D scanners, lidar sensors, radios...
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Adjustments of theodolite may refer to: Permanent adjustments of theodolite Temporary adjustments of theodolite Adjustment computations This disambiguation...
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Gyrotheodolite (redirect from Gyro-Theodolite)
surveying gyro) is an instrument composed of a gyrocompass mounted to a theodolite. It is used to determine the orientation of true north. It is the main...
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Tellurometer Theodolite Half theodolite Plain theodolite Simple theodolite Great theodolite Non-transit theodolite Transit theodolite Seconds theodolite Electronic...
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Total station (redirect from Total station theodolite)
station theodolite is an electronic/optical instrument used for surveying and building construction. It is an electronic transit theodolite integrated...
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Laclavère Plateau (redirect from Theodolite Hill)
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...
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Cinetheodolite (redirect from Cine-theodolite)
data to about 30 km slant range. These instruments were developed from theodolites by the addition of a movie camera, adding the ability to track a vehicle...
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subsequent triangulation Roy ordered a new theodolite from leading instrument-maker Jesse Ramsden. This Ramsden theodolite, delivered in 1787, for the first time...
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Reconnaissance of survey stations was commenced in 1935, using Tavistock theodolites to confirm the inter-visibility of stations. Survey of the triangulation...
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repair instruments used for the Survey of India. To try to make his theodolites less susceptible to field conditions Everest proposed a new pattern with...
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supplied national surveys such as the Ordnance Survey, with large transit theodolites. In 1922 with business in a depressed state Cooke and Troughton & Simms...
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called stadia lines or stadia hairs, are crosshairs on the reticle of a theodolite or other surveying instrument that allow stadiametric rangefinding. The...
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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...
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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...
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prisoner at Yorktown. Observing a solar eclipse through the telescope of a theodolite without darkened glasses led to the burning of the retina of his left...
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near the surface of the Earth. Surveying equipment such as levels and theodolites are used for accurate measurement of angular deviation, horizontal, vertical...
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to excess. His nephew, John Dixon, came into possession of his "common theodolite", a work of George Adams. John's grandson, Edward, donated it to the Royal...
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the direction the theodolite is pointing. Consider tracking a helicopter flying towards the theodolite from the horizon. The theodolite is a telescope mounted...
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used to support any one of a number of surveying instruments, such as theodolites, total stations, levels or transits. The modern sturdy, but portable...
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nameplate of Fawcett's was found with an Indian tribe. In June 1933, a theodolite compass belonging to Fawcett was found near the Baciary Indians of Mato...
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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...
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angular size of the object would then yield the actual size. Rangefinder Theodolite United States. Department of the Army (1961). Dictionary of United States...
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effective surveying tool. Adapted to surveying, the dioptra is similar to the theodolite, or surveyor's transit, which dates to the sixteenth century. It is a...
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Universal theodolite made by Florenz Sartorius, c. 1910...
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understanding of the gravitational field of the Earth, either to set up theodolites or to determine GPS satellite orbits. The study of the figure of the...
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positions for the cast iron columns; these points were then set precisely by theodolite measurements. Then the concrete foundations were poured, and the base...
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