Calculating the old deed

If I got the owners to do Agreements everytime I encountered a 1 foot discrepancy I'd have a mountain of Agreements on my desk.?ÿ Most of the time a f...

I find that if I push through the resistence it produces correct answers.?ÿ If I go too fast the inertia makes the carriage jump so some of the gears ...

My Dad had a Marchant Figurematic, wish I had it, donƒ??t know what happened to it. He had it in the late 1960s then I visited his office around 1970 ...

It has 16 places in the lower register (8 places on the keyboard). I multiplied 12,345,678 times 87,654,321 and the answer it cranked out is 1,082,15...

Former employer had a newer version of that compass except it had a small telescope.

Also found a circa 1939 K+E Favorite Slide Rule (4055). Looks like mahogany. It has A, B, C, D on front and S, L, T on back along with conversion tabl...

Surveyors have a hymnƒ??When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.

Summit Trailhead is at the end of the dashed road to the right of ƒ??8606Tƒ? and the corner is the left pin between ƒ??Mountaineerƒ? and ƒ??Creek.ƒ?...

Thomas Beckettƒ??s reaction to your story about why the Cathedral Survey is not done:

Itƒ??s a tool like any other tool. If you need precise elevations then UAS is not appropriate for that. You are relying on an automated software proc...

We put out ground control points then fly the project using a mapping app. We do a grid (for example N-S flight lines then E-W flight lines) if practi...

@bill93 I didn't really think about it, someone claimed in a YouTube comment that some had verniers to gain a significant digit but you are right, don...