From the Index
Reports, histories, and working notes filed under this subject.
Measuring the World
From colonial metes-and-bounds surveys and Mason and Dixon to the Coast Survey, U.S. Standard Datum, NAD 27, State Plane coordinates, and NGVD 29.
Measuring the World
The distant observations, calculations, corrections, and people behind the first accepted height of the world’s highest mountain.
Exploration & Places
How baselines, giant theodolites, triangulation, and an immense field organization carried a geodetic network across India.
Surveying History
From open sights and divided circles to transits, total stations, and robotic tracking, the theodolite’s history is a story of making direction repeatable.
