THE COLLECTION
UNSW Surveying Instrument Collection (June 2015)
SELECT an instrument category from the following table:
CATEGORY |
EXAMPLE |
DESCRIPTION |
Includes instruments such as compasses, chronometers, chronographs, steel tapes, planimeters, inclinometers, sextants, alidades, plane tables, echo sounders, mechanical and electronic calculators, metric cameras, lettering sets, rangefinders |
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Includes (optical) theodolites with metal and glass circles, photo-theodolites, gyro-theodolites and electronic theodolites (with electro-optical reading of circles) |
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Includes tilting levels, engineering levels, geodetic levels, automatic levels and so-called precision levels |
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Includes Electronic Distance Measuring (EDM) instruments and electronic tacheometers ('total stations'), including early instruments such as the Geodimeter and the Tellurometer |