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16th Century Surveyors,  by Sarah Hughes

A. Brown Artifacts,  by Dale Beeks

A Fine Old Line Across New Jersey,   by Fred J. Aun

A Good Memory,  by A. Carl Wolfe

American RR Goniometer,   by Dale Beeks

Art of Instrument Making,  by David St. John

Attitude and Longitude,  by David Alan Grier

Building the Erie Canal,  by Mary M. Root

California Plummet-Lamp,  by Dale Beeks

Carl Friedrich Gauss - Mathematician, Astronomer, Surveyor,  by Fred Roeder

Cecil Hanson - Note To A Friend

Changing Chains

Charles Babbage,  by Mary M. Root

Civil War:  Surveying for Robert E. Lee

Connections,  by John R. Stock

Conservation of Instruments - Part 1,  by David St. John

Conservation of Instruments - Part 2,  by David St. John

Conservation of Instruments - Part 3,  by David St. John

Cook & Peary - The Polar Controversy Resolved,  reviewed by Ken Ringle

Cross-Hairs

Distance Across A River,  by Wilhelm Schmidt

Edmund Gunter - Mathematician & Inventor

Egyptian Surveying Tools,  by Mary M. Root

El Dorado Springs, Missouri,  by Dennis D. Bland

Ellis Island Dispute,  by Joan Biskupic

Eugene Scheel:  Historical Mapmaker,  by Ray Linville

Evolution of the Transit,  by Dale Beeks

Field Wear: Authenticating Old Instruments,  by David St. John

Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress,  By Walter W. Ristow

Geodetic Diplomacy

George N. Saegmuller,  by Mary M. Root

Great Theodolite

Greenville and Grouseland Treaty Lines,  by Roger Woodfill

The Heliotrope,  by Dale R. Beeks

How The Road Got Its Name

Instrument Makers:  Ainsworth & Brunton

Instrument Makers:  Theodore Alteneder

Instrument Makers:  Chandlee,  by Dale Beeks

Instrument Makers:  Frederick J. Emmerich,  by Dale Beeks

Instrument Makers:  The Haggars,   by Dale Beeks

Instrument Makers:  John Locke

Instrument Makers:  William A. Schmolz,  by Dale Beeks

Intro to Antique Surveying Instruments,   by David Garcelon

Jacob Blattner Compass,  by David St. John

Jacob's Staff,  by David G. Krehbiel

Jean Baptiste Delambre

John Harrison's Timepiece,   by John N. Wilford

Jonathan Danforth (1628-1712)

Lewis & Clark's Encampment,  by Richard L. Hill

Lincoln:  Logs to Logarithms,  by Neil Koos

Lincoln The Surveyor,  by Carl Sandburg

Line of Demarcation & Ellicott's Survey,  by Greg Spies

London Antique Map Shops,  by Timothy Harper

Louisiana Purchase State Park,   by Mike Trimble

Measuring Angles

Newly Discovered Hondius Map,  by Paul E. Cohen & Robert T. Augustyn 

North Carolina - South Carolina Boundary Commission Report

Pennsylvania Method,  by Wilhelm Schmidt

Peter Jefferson,  by Mary M. Root

Poem

Powell's Expedition of the Colorado River,  by R. Zimmerman & M. Root

Preservation In A Nutshell

Public Land Survey: Where the land came from,  by Rick Zimmerman         

Rails & Roads:  The Canada Road 1817,   by Barry H. Rodrique

Refine Your Collection,  by Alvin Sellens

Relocating Eden - And Other Impossible Tasks

Restoration - Update on Surveyor's Compass

Roman Glory:  Hadrian's Wall,  by Mary M. Root

Roman Surveying

Saegmuller Attachment

Shovels and Plumb Bobs,  by Rollin C. Curd

Sir George Everest and Survey of India,  by Mary M. Root

Song of Surveyors, 1730

South Carolina:  Early Surveying History,  by Louise Pettus

Stakes Outgun Colt Revolver

Steel Tape

Survey Marker Bewitched Indians

Surveying Chokoloskee's Wilderness World,  by Joe Knetsch

Surveyor Has Fought Off Guns, Dogs, Irate Owners

Surveyor General Instructions,  by F. D. "Bud" Uzes

Surveyor General Rufus Putnam,  by Norm Caldwell

Surveyor's Chain

Symmes Purchase,   by C. Albert White

Tacheometer,  by Wilfred Airy

The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain 

The Point of No Survey,  by Manuel Gutierrez

The Standard Meter

Trials and Tribulations of Thomas Smith,  by Hugh B. Goebelle

Trolley As Cost Efficient Transit,  by Rick Zimmerman

Virginia and North Carolina Boundary Line,   by Mary M. Root

Virginia Fishing Feud,  by Spencer S. Hsu

What Did They Do After Lunch? - George Washington's Journal

"Who Killed Who? Where?"

Why the Midwest Is Square,  by Gene Logsdon

Wooden Surveying Compasses,  by David G. Krehbiel

You Can't Build That Mosque With A Compass

 

 

 

 

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