The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India was a project that aimed to carry out a survey across the Indian subcontinent with scientific precision. It was...

Arcot in western Tamil Nadu were then called Baramahal. The Great Trigonometrical Survey (1802–1852) was started by British surveyor Col. William Lambton...

its uses are unknown. From 1802 until 1871, the Great Trigonometrical Survey was a project to survey the Indian subcontinent with high precision. Starting...

all allowed for. Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey Drawings Great Trigonometrical Survey (Indian subcontinent) Public Land Survey System (United States) The...

as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790) Bilby tower Great Trigonometrical Survey Multilateration, where a point is calculated...

began a triangulation survey in 1800-1802 that was later called the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. His initial survey was to measure the length...

Mailācā Dagaḍa) is a monument built by the British during the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in 1907 in Nagpur, Maharashtra. The Zero Mile Stone...

mathematician who had specialised in Spherical Trigonometry, so that they could be a part of the Great Trigonometric Survey. In 1832, under the leadership of Everest...

mountain in the world, but calculations and measurements by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in 1849 showed that Mount Everest, known as Peak XV...

the attention of Colonel William Lambton, the leader of the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS), who appointed him as his chief assistant. He joined Lambton...

built for this survey. The survey was finally completed in 1853. The Great Trigonometric Survey of India began in 1801. The Indian survey had an enormous...

from the notation used by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of British India. Thomas Montgomerie made the first survey of the Karakoram from Mount Haramukh...

astronomical assistant and, on 12 March 1861, superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. In the next two years the three last meridional series...

One of the greatest projects of 19th century geography was the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. The British also wanted geographical information on...

Lennox Coulson In 19th century GSI undertook several surveys including Great Trigonometrical Survey, 1869 Kailash-Mansarovar expedition, 1871-1872 Shigache–Lhasa...

first mapped peak in the Karakoram mountain range during the Great Trigonometrical Survey, leading to its K-number designation as "K1". The etymology of...

maps of India produced by the British Raj, and based on the Great Trigonometrical Survey, had become widely available. Over the background of a map, Bharat...

Struve Geodetic Arc across Eastern Europe (1816-1855) and the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (1802-1871) took much longer, but resulted in more accurate...

temporary trigonometrical stations are set up near construction sites for monitoring the precision and progress of construction. Some trigonometrical stations...

unknown.tr Great Trigonometrical Survey Polygonal chain Side shot Transcontinental Traverse B. C. Punmia; Ashok Kumar Jain (2005). Surveying. Firewall...

traditionally expressed using trigonometric functions. On the sphere, geodesics are great circles. Spherical trigonometry is of great importance for calculations...

closed his academy and began work on a trigonometrical survey - inspired by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Sprent and Calder located and...

army officer and Surveyor General of India who worked in the Great Trigonometrical Survey. He served under Sir George Everest and succeeded him in 1843...

miles (48 kilometres) away.) In 1802, the British began the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India to fix the locations, heights, and names of the world's...

as "Dihang"). To solve this mystery, Henry John Harman of the Great Trigonometrical Survey sent a pundit explorer, Nem Singh (known as "G. M. N.") to follow...

Society of Great Britain & Ireland. 1 (2): 333–364. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00142510. Roy, Rama Deb (1986). "The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in...

surveyor and geodesist. He was the last superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey from 1912 to 1921, and was reader in geodesy at the University...

Touring Supreme, a category in the IMSA GT Championship Great Trigonometrical Survey, a geodetic survey of India Green Tobacco Sickness, a type of nicotine...

of, the Survey of Kashmir, Ladak, and Baltistan or Little Tibet, 20 sheets, 8 miles to the inch, published by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India...

submerged by the Bhavani Sagar dam. In 1814, as part of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, a sub-assistant named Keys and an apprentice named McMahon ascended...