"Theodolite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the whole town knew that something was doing. The hotel swarmed with carpenters, bricklayers and painters. There was an architect up from the city with a bundle of blue prints in his hand. There was an engineer taking the street level with a theodolite, and a gang of navvies with shovels digging like fury as if to dig out the back foundations of ...
— Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town • Stephen Leacock
... across the glacier, and spent the remainder of the day and the whole of the 20th in plotting their position accurately. (Very cold wind down glacier increasing. In spite of this Bowers wrestled with theodolite. He is really wonderful. I have never seen anyone who could go on so long with bare fingers. My own fingers went every few moments.)We saw that there had been movement and roughly measured it as about 30 feet. (The old Ferrar Glacier ...
— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott
... to explore the natural productions of the reef; and the confidential clerk of Captain M—-, a man of the name of Collier, who had been many years in his service, and who was now employed in noting down the angles taken with the theodolite. ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat |
