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An early surveyor's wheel depicted in the hand of late 18th century British road builder John Metcalf. The origins of the surveyor's wheel are connected to the origins of the odometer. While the latter is derived to measure distances travelled by a vehicle, the former is specialized to measure distances.
Hodometer, a Surveyor's wheel, a device for measuring distance. Also called a waywiser or perambulator This page was last edited on 6 March ...
A surveyor using a total station A student using a theodolite in field. Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.
The surveyor is assisted by a chainman. A ranging rod (usually a prominently coloured wooden pole) is placed in the ground at the destination point. Starting at the originating point the chain is laid out towards the ranging rod, and the surveyor then directs the chainman to make the chain perfectly straight and pointing directly at the ranging ...
Instruments used in surveying include: . Alidade; Alidade table; Cosmolabe; Dioptra; Dumpy level; Engineer's chain; Geodimeter; Graphometer; Groma (surveying) Laser ...
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The Jones Counter is a type of bicycle odometer which adds the function of a surveyor's wheel to a bicycle. It was developed in 1971 by Alan Jones to accurately measure the length of road running race courses. [1] The counter has gears that drive a mechanical digital counter.
Surveyor's wheel, a device for measuring distance; See also. Perambulation (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 22 October 2022, at 04:33 (UTC). Text ...