"Theodolite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... minutes above the horizon; an angle which is quite inappreciable to the eye, when unaided by instruments.* [These are the apparent angles which I took from Mr. Hodgson's house (alt. 7300 feet) with an excellent theodolite, no deduction being ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker
... fire of gushing cupolas and dazzling billets, a train of carriages, drawn by a tamed volcanic demon, on a wonderful way of steel, armed strongly to deliver us from the Castle Perilous in which we were besieged by the Giants. The way was marvelously prepared by theodolite and level, by tented camps of men driving, with shouts and cracking whips, straining teams in circling mazes, about dark pits on grassy hillsides, and building long, straight banks of earth across swales; by huge machines ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick
... theodolite. There's a tripod in one of my boxes. I'll get it and mount it, and we'll have a shot at ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various
... machine shop, Mike was rummaging around in one of the tool lockers. "Any sort of a small telescope," he muttered, almost to himself. Then "Paul, is there a theodolite or anything like that left ...
— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond
... chiefly used were a small theodolite by Ramsden, and Kater's pocket compass [Note: A most valuable instrument, combining all the advantages of the circumferentor, without being so liable to be damaged and put out of order by carriage.], with the addition of an excellent sextant, pocket chronometer, and ...
— Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales • John Oxley
... is docketed, measured, mapped, and surveyed, when a railroad runs across "darkest Africa," and the great ice-wall of the Antarctic cannot keep its inviolability from the feet of those resolute and heroic explorers who go with camera, microscope, and theodolite, against such forces of Nature as would daunt anything but the resolute human heart—it is curious to come across small corners of the world where the law of nations seemingly does not run, and the current of the ...
— Lynton and Lynmouth - A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland • John Presland
... readily, at sight, Strum a march upon the loud Theodolite. He would diligently play On the Zoetrope all day, And blow the gay ...
— The Bab Ballads • W. S. Gilbert |
