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single pole used to support a compass However, the original Jacob staff was actually a surveying instrument developed in the 1300's that was
Antique surveying instruments were important pioneer tools that figured Philadelphia , and the Solar Compass in 1835 by William A Burt of Michigan,
COMPASS SURVEYS The magnetic compass as a surveying instrument has been super- seded by the transit and theodolite for precise work, but it is never-
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9 The circumferentor is also known as a surveyor's compass Scalé's particular cartographic trademark was his antique effects, as
He invented the vernier compass so a surveyor could set the magnetic variation in the field as well as the automatic needle lifter for the compass He also