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Month: March 2020
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Exploring the History of Surveyors’ Transit
This artefact was most generally used in the early 1900s by surveyors and civil engineers for measuring angles, determining distance and direction, and doing levelling. The chief parts of the transit are two circular plates, a and b, usually of brass or copper and mounted independently upon the same axis so that the upper plate…