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Waterpasinstrument door Troughton & Simms

TitleWaterpasinstrument door Troughton & Simms
Object namewaterpasinstrument
Inventory number2000.0108.GEO
Dating1850 – 1870
MakerTroughton & Simms (producent)
Dimensions215,0 mm (h) x 410,0 mm (b) x 200,0 mm (d)
Material
  • metaal
  • glas
Place of manufactureLonden, VK
DescriptionWaterpasinstrument door Troughton & Simms, met een boussole. Dit instrument is een zogenaamde "Dumpy level" van Gravatt (1830), een type dat vanaf 1848 is vervaardigd en is ingezet ter voorbereiding van de eerste nauwkeurigheidswaterpassing.
DocumentationBruff, Peter, "A Treatise on Engineering Field Work : Containing Practical Land Surveying for Railways, &c. : With the Theory, Principles, and Practice of Levelling, and Their Application to the Purposes of Civil Engineering : Also Parish and Subterranean Surveying, with Sectio-Planography, and Every Information Necessary to Be Known in the Elementary Parts of Civil Engineering : With Descriptions of the Best Instruments Employed in Surveying and Levelling, Their Adjustments and Methods of Using in the Field", London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1838.

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