We take it for granted that you can look at your phone and tell exactly where you are. At least, as exact as the GPS satellites will allow. But throughout human history, there has been a tremendous ...
THE ‘Wild precision theodolite’—a light-weight-type of primary triangulation instrument—is well known for the ingenuity and compactness of its design as well as for the superb workmanship exhibited in ...
The national science museum has bought a pair of scientific instruments owned by the only Canadian member of Robert Falcon Scott's tragic expedition to the South Pole in 1910-1913. Museum officials ...