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Reference numberMS/257/5/2
Alternative reference numberSa.1682
Previous numbersES5/1/1682
LevelItem
TitleMemorandum on surveying instruments for India by G C Talbot
Date19th century
DescriptionRegarding proposed arrangements for testing surveying and astronomical instruments for India. These arrangements are designed for larger instruments likely to be sent such as the three foot theodolite, the five foot transit instruments and the zenith sector currently under construction for the great trigonometrical survey. Lieutenant Colonel [Alexander] Strange argues the best way to test instruments is to set them up, adjust them and then make observations with them. Description of Strange’s recommendations to carry out this ‘principle’.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk on paper
Access statusOpen
Related records in the catalogueMS/257/5/1
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