That is small! There's a good video on the use of this instrument:

@holy-cow The Essex Police station was recently burgled and all the toilet bowls were stolen. A Police spokesperson said they have not made much prog...

There was once a train conductor who committed three separate murders, and each time he was tried, found guilty and sent to the electric chair. Each t...

@dougie

If two trains are travelling towards each other, one at 45mph, one at 90mph .... what is the surname of the conductor?

Meanwhile, in the Suez: If you look closely at the bow of the vessel, there's an excavator having a nibble at the bank.

Like most folk, a couple of words in life really irritate me. One of them is "selected" but only when used by Architects.

Sounds like how the rodmen used to get worked in the good old days of surveying.

It may be just me but I'd say the spelling "niether" makes it null and void.

RF interference from a nearby transmitter?

@flga-2-2 I must say, these days, wood panel interior makes the hair on my back stand up.

Ahem. When I did my engineering degree in the late 80's it included a compulsory 6 month surveying course. There was even a one week field trip, in wh...

@holy-cow

@norman-oklahoma I opened that web page in a new tab. I saw a unhappy clown, then I saw skin coloured yoga pants which made me LOL, then I scrolled o...

@bill93 By comparison I also have these two, which do about the same at 13L/100km Red = BMW E30 325i 1986 (pre-facelift), straight six 2.5L. Grey =...

@rover83 But, according to this video, Topcon has the edge over Leica. ?ÿ

@bill93 I have a Toyota Corolla (Fielder) station wagon hybrid - non plug in, so it gets its electricity from the petrol engine in it or regeneration...

Here's an American equivalent, the one with the classic commentary about age, from 20s.

@jaro 33s and 39s