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Place of origin
Date

‘Trans-Pac’ GPS receiver, 1990-1991

1990-1991

Plane table outfit by Benjamin Cole

1750-1766

Combined graphometer and plummet clinometer, 1663.

1663

100 Link Steel Surveying Chain, 1784.

1784

Surveyor's pocket sextant.

1795-1805

Altazimuth theodolite by Benjamin Cole & Son

1755-1765

Graphometer with magnetic compass

1710-1720

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

1791

Telescope used by General Roy for measuring base line to link Paris and Greenwich

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

1775-1794

Magnifying stereoscope, 1940

1940

Simple theodolite

1600-1630

Simple theodolite

1600-1630

Groma, roughly made

200-1 BCE

Surveyor's steel measuring chain, British, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Surveyor's measuring chain, British, 1923-1933

1923-1933

Microptic transit theodolite, 1954

1950-1954

Jaderin type base-line apparatus, British, 1885

1885

Brown type clinometer, British, 1890-1910

1890-1910

Keyboard for Ferranti Freescan digitiser

1969

Station-pointer 6 inch with 3 extension arms each 12 ins. long. Engraved "Potter

1870

Angle iron to support levelling staff at bench mark

1914

Double-mirror heliotrope (Spiegelkreutz-heliotrop) for geodetic work

1822

Sextant-heliotype, as invented by C.F. Gauss

1827

Steel measuring wedge by Otto Fennel und Soehne

1910

6 inch altazimuth theodolite by W. & T. Gilbert

1840

Clinometer, German, 1850-1900

1850-1900

Nonien scale reading microscope

1914

Schatz scale reading microscope

1914

Transit theodolite, British, 1816-1850

1816-1850

Gentilli type tacheometer, Austrian.

1868-1876

Hypsometer, British, 1890-1893

1890-1893

Combined level & clinometer, German, 1755

1755

Tapes measuring - repair outfit No.2

1955

Surveying aneroid barometer

1940

McCallam's patent distance indicator, 1864

1864

Cross-head, 1690-1710

1690-1710

Circumferentor by J. Sisson of London

1731-1770

Simple theodolite, English, 1690-1725

1690-1725

Azimuth Sighting Compass, British, 1818-1850

1818-1850

100-Foot tape measure, British, 1928

1928

60-Foot tape measure, British, 1927

1927

Fenner type rangefinder, British, 1892

1892

10 metre tape measure

1905

Sectioned display theodolite, Swiss, 1970

1970

Planimeter, by Stanley

1901-1950

300- foot tape measure, 1928

1928

Amsler planimeter

1901-1950

Eclimeter, British, 1910-1950

1910-1950

Station pointer

1801-1900