surveying instruments

The surveying instruments stood where the men had left them.

He was first mentioned as a maker of surveying instruments in 1611.

"French tells me you are the best with the surveying instruments.

We opened the trunk and showed him the surveying instruments."

He comes on stage carrying surveying instruments and is described as a geometer.

Retrograde verniers are found on some devices, including surveying instruments.

The company's earlier work with surveying instruments was more or less transferable to the hand-held device.

Older topographic maps were prepared using traditional surveying instruments.

Outnumbered, the white men escaped the area, but lost their horses, game, and surveying instruments to the band of Cherokee.

During the 1980's the company redesigned its main products, surveying instruments, to include lasers and other electronic means of measurement.

The strange surveying instruments often looked like weapons, and the engines that bore it up in the air did sometimes flatten things below.

Lilley studied at Washington College before beginning a career selling surveying instruments invented by his father.

Sometime around 1810 he decided to fabricate surveying instruments, selling chains, compasses, and small transit telescopes.

The new entity focuses on the design and manufacture of surveying instruments including mechanical total stations and related products.

A sight is a device used to assist aligning or aim weapons, surveying instruments, or other items by eye.

The cuadrángulo was rarely a perfect square because the Fathers had no surveying instruments at their disposal and simply measured off all dimensions by foot.

The two basic surveying instruments used to mark plots of land were a chain known as Gunter's chain and a compass.

A number of excavated surveying instruments and measuring rods have yielded evidence of early cartographic activity.

Two men with tripod-mounted surveying instruments climbed onto ledges near the collapsed building to measure any hairline movement in the walls.

Rafael MacAran started pulling his surveying instruments from his pack but he didn't attend to them.

A method of combined centring and levelling for surveying instruments equipped with optimal plumb indicators.

It was a bit lopsided, as patterns drawn on the ground without surveying instruments often are, but it was perfectly recognizable.

He left behind three watches, three compasses, some books, some maps, and surveying instruments, whose total value was about forty-five dollars.

There were workshops, where false bottoms were made in provisions chests to hold sextants and other surveying instruments.

Someone had painted a trompe I'oeil still life on the left wall: fruit, feathers, and surveying instruments on crumpled leather.