I'm so old I remember using a tape/chain with feet and inches and getting *hit for using my plumb bob as a hammer and making a metal fob with two holes instead of a bloody knot in order to suspend the plumb bob under the instrument that I needed a magnifying glass to read the degrees/mins. & to guess the seconds !
Ol' Phart DGG
That is a good one! I am not that old YET.;-)
Dip Needle. Really, no Schonstedt. Lattitudes and Departures before my mentor let me calc a traverse any other way.
I remember a Subtense Bar.
http://courses.washington.edu/cive316/lectures/pps_lectures/Horizontal_Distance.pps
Like Jimmy Buffet says "when the girls used ask how things are, now they ask how things were."
> I remember a Subtense Bar.
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>> http://courses.washington.edu/cive316/lectures/pps_lectures/Horizontal_Distance.ppsbr >
Do you just remember or did you use one?
I remember it, my father used it. I didn't.:-P
The second page of the EDM portion of the presentation sure was lousy in its clarity of the picture.
> I'm so old I remember using a tape/chain with feet and inches and getting *hit for using my plumb bob as a hammer and making a metal fob with two holes instead of a bloody knot in order to suspend the plumb bob under the instrument that I needed a magnifying glass to read the degrees/mins. & to guess the seconds !
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> Ol' Phart DGG
DGG.....You shouldn't have gotten hit for the reasons you state. But using a tape with feet and inches? Blasphemy!
Wow how thing change, but stay the same. My parents did that to me when I was a kid. Now, I holler at my kids to find the remote.
