Since there has been a discussion of Wild instruments, I thought that I would post this picture
I took this picture many years ago on a visit to the Musee' d'Orsay in Paris.
This young art person made an impression on me (pun intended) since I was there to see the great impressionist works. BTW, this is one of the great museums of the world in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower in a refitted magnificent train station of yesteryear.
I wondered what he was doing but I could only parlez François enough to get me a meal, hotel and to the train stations.
It looks like a T2 and if I remember correctly, it was. I think that the worked for a museum as a surveyor to plan future exhibitions. But he was turning angles solo with no distances taken.
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This would be a better story if the punch line was that this was what convinced you to become a surveyor. :>
He is aiming in wrong direction... should have been more to the right 🙂
I thinks he's actually trying to measure the width of a .....never mind.
Obviously the model for that sculpture is in view at a distance
My friend Bart and I contemplated spending some time at the Musee' d'Orsay when we were in Paris in March. Since we would have had to wait outside in a blizzard in a line that we estimated contained 700-800 people, a line, I might add, which appeared to be moving at a glacial pace, we opted for Notre-Dame cathedral instead.
Might be a Sokkia/Sokkisha TM1A. Note the position of the micrometer knobs in these two pictures.
ahem..
I don't think that you would find anyone in Europe using a Japanese instrument at this time and maybe now even.
I would imagine very high tariffs etc. At this time, early 90s, there were hardly any Japanese vehicles in the UK and Europe.
looking at your photos maybe you are correct
I thought it was a Wild.
I think you nailed it. A better picture of the TM1A shows "Lietz/Sokkisha" on the side.
Being in France, I'd guess it's an S.F.O.M. (Societe Francaise Optique et Mechanique) Famous outfit for some really obscure & weird instrumentation. Notice the conical bearings (upper/lower?) protruding below the leveling screws ...
Thanks, Doctor! Has anyone ever written a book dealing with
the French's influence on land surveying in Louisiana?
That sort of thing has mainly been paragraphs in books. Some stuff is available from the State Land Office at their website, in particular see Ory Poret's booklet as well as the compilation of the instructions to Deputy Surveyors.
http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/slo/