Here is a nice article about the Curta from the Jan 2004 Scientific American, starts on page 92 of the magazine which is page 80 of the PDF.

There have been stations discounting for cash here in the NW since I started driving the the late 90's.

squowse, post: 354630, member: 7109 wrote: Cool I had the exact same idea for our automated monitoring prisms. Some are very closely spaced (from the ...

squowse, post: 354587, member: 7109 wrote: i'm interested in the "LED shutter". What is this and how does it work?Thanks for all the photos! While m...

Jim Frame, post: 354560, member: 10 wrote: When installing an instrument or target on those fixed plates, does the 5/8"-11 bolt rotate, or is it fixed...

US masters swimming has a nice forum; A blog entry I ran into yesterday; Its a very peaceful activity that lends itself to all levels of physical fi...

not my real name, post: 353875, member: 8199 wrote: When the board of directors asked me who should be on my team for their construction project I tol...

Better go with blue, it they are color blind red will require a second trip.

When prism constants and precision were initially explained to me I was told the two numbers to look out for were the constant, to which the prism is ...

Posting some drawings would make this thread more interesting. More of a content than style issue but construction drawings that do not have the data ...

As far as taking ownership of the work goes I think that Paul and Cow are on the right track with broadening the scope of work exposure. Working solel...

I have been wearing these lately, they are not as thick as traditional loggers shirts but I kind of doubt it would be light enough for FL.

Where folders go, when and and who performed what calculations and the salient information of a days field work should really be dependent on workflow...

Set Up>Resection Helmert>Shoot Targets>Calc>Page over to results tab>More>Choose to Use 2D,3D or remove points and re-calc. as desir...

I have only every seen a Sanborn map in a museum and was struck with how concise it was.

I have always used a bicycle tail light attached to the rod for working in the woods. I have heard stories of guys climbing up in trees and using came...

I do not like omni products in general. I work in the dark more than most and would rather work with a quality glass and an independent light.

The bonuses that I have appreciated the most are smaller tokens such as "skate and call it eight" instead of heading back out to field, or a few hundr...

For control work I use the special Leica measure up tape, once at set up and again at boxing. Typically the check measurement is within 1 mm, includin...