theodolite

How To Use theodolite In A Sentence

• Accuracy has a conceptual beauty which was once visible in the look of chronometers and theodolites.
• The spot was actually located and determined by theodolite from the base camp, knowing the height of the mountain. The Assault on Everest
• You could use a surveying device such as a theodolite, moving around in the room, measuring angles to the bulb from different positions, and using trigonometry to work out the distance.
• Fitting the TV or IR off-target for the code position of electro-optical theodolite and forecasting the velocity of being tracked target can compose co...
• The trophy is a 1930s theodolite - which was used for surveying work - and is presented by the institution every year.
• The process required teams to coordinate with each other from opposite sides of the canyon, with a rodman, or rigger, perched on one wall holding a fifteen-foot pole with a flag at one end—used to probe to the back of the caves perforating the rock—while a surveyor across the river fixed him in the crosshairs of his camera-equipped theodolite. Colossus
• A bunch of men was clustered around a surveyor's theodolite.
• A theodolite is permanently installed at the center of the beam in order to define its orientation with a back-sight toward another geodetic point.
• Thus the theodolite was the only instrument retained, and the camera, photographic films (exposed and unexposed), hypsometer, thermometers, rifle, ammunition and other sundries were all thrown away. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
• The transformation matrix from the sensor coordinate frame to the theodolite coordinate frame is then found.