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Northern Goldsmiths has sat on the corner of Pilgrim Street and Blackett Street since 1892 - the same year Newcastle United was formed just up the road
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Our Treasures: Whangārei Museum surveyor s theodolite example of finely crafted expert s tool
10 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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The Cooke, Troughton & Simms surveyor s level at Whangārei Museum.
OUR TREASURES
Most of us are used to seeing the odd surveyor out with their high-vis jackets and bright-yellow tripods, even if we don t really know how the surveying is actually done. Surveying and its optical tools have a long and fascinating history, which I won t attempt to address today. However, we will look at an example of a British mid-century surveyor s level, with a New Zealand connection, from our collection.
The level consists of many specialist components such as a telescope, reflector mirror, various lenses, and other tiny sighting, levelling and measuring parts.