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  • Thumbnail for Spirit level
    constant when the level is flipped. A similar procedure is applied to more sophisticated instruments such as a surveyor's optical level or a theodolite...
    13 KB (1,666 words) - 02:40, 18 August 2024
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    known as a surveyor's level, builder's level, dumpy level or the historic "Y" level. It operates on the principle of establishing a visual level relationship...
    10 KB (1,347 words) - 22:37, 6 August 2024
  • is level with the instrument (or the surveyor's eye if he is using a hand level for low-resolution work). When placed at any point where the level is...
    5 KB (752 words) - 01:51, 22 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Triangulum Australe
    a surveyor's level respectively in a set of draughtsman's instruments in his 1756 map of the southern stars. Also depicting it as a surveyor's level, German...
    34 KB (3,330 words) - 04:02, 17 July 2024
  • (angle measurement) Ramsden surveying instruments Ranging rod Surveyor's chain Surveyor's compass Tachymeter (surveying) Tape (surveying) Tellurometer...
    2 KB (129 words) - 19:19, 4 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Surveying
    measuring chains. An assistant would move the far end of the chain under the surveyor's direction. Survey technicians often operate survey instruments, run surveys...
    57 KB (7,269 words) - 12:29, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Norma (constellation)
    ruler, a compass, and a surveyor's level in a set of draughtsman instruments, in his 1756 map of the southern stars. The level was dangling from the apex...
    35 KB (4,017 words) - 14:19, 20 August 2024
  • (surveying), short for "fore sight reading", a reading from a leveling staff when using a surveyor's level Foresight Institute, an American nonprofit organization...
    1 KB (201 words) - 00:56, 8 April 2023
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    plane. The surveyor adjusts the instrument's level by coarse adjustment of the tripod legs and fine adjustment using three precision levelling screws on...
    15 KB (2,175 words) - 06:26, 10 August 2024
  • while everyone is at the wedding of Beetle and Honey; a weight from a surveyor's level that rips through the chapel causes the terrified bugs to flee back...
    17 KB (2,108 words) - 15:36, 6 July 2024
  • provide are diverse. Chartered Surveyors work in all fields of property and building consultancy. At the most basic level, their duties include valuing...
    15 KB (1,444 words) - 20:37, 27 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Depression range finder
    Range-finder (DRF), derived from the surveyor's level, which could be used in permanently fixed mountings whose height above sea level could be precisely determined...
    15 KB (1,934 words) - 17:20, 28 April 2024
  • also be non-telescoping, such as the joints on some older wooden surveyor's levelling rods. These use a joint that keeps the sections offset from each...
    4 KB (625 words) - 08:44, 23 May 2024
  • marine surveyor (also referred to as a "yacht & small craft surveyor", "gasoline engine surveyor", diesel engine surveyor", "hull & machinery surveyor" and/or...
    14 KB (1,818 words) - 16:39, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tripod (surveying)
    A surveyor's tripod is a device used to support any one of a number of surveying instruments, such as theodolites, total stations, levels or transits...
    4 KB (642 words) - 20:51, 20 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Troughton & Simms
    typical late 6-inch theodolite for use by engineers and surveyors and a typical late surveyors level, which can be dated to before 1915 by the lack of "Ltd"...
    10 KB (1,086 words) - 08:28, 29 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Circinus
    Australe, respectively, as a set square and ruler, a compass, and a surveyor's level in a set of draughtsman's instruments. Circinus was given its current...
    31 KB (3,344 words) - 16:59, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Topographic Abney level
    degrees of arc, percent grade, and in topographic Abney levels, grade in feet per surveyor's chain, and chainage correction. The latter is the cosine...
    8 KB (1,041 words) - 17:41, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bedford Level experiment
    The naturalist and qualified surveyor Alfred Russel Wallace accepted the wager. Wallace, by virtue of his surveyor's training and knowledge of physics...
    16 KB (1,926 words) - 11:01, 25 February 2024
  • particular, due to risk mitigation/limitation factors the employment of surveyors at all levels of the construction industry is widespread. There are still many...
    17 KB (2,019 words) - 07:37, 30 January 2024
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