Smithsonian - National Museum of American History, Behring Center

 
Physical Sciences Collection - Surveying and Geodesy

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Alidade
Altitude and Azimuth Instrument
Chain, Tape and Base Bar
Compass, Pocket
Compass, Railroad
Compass, Solar
Compass, Surveyor's
Cross, Surveyor's
Electromagnetic Distance Measurement (EDM)
Gradienter
Graphometer
Heliotrope
Holland Circle
Level
Range Finder
Repeating Circle
Theodolite
Transit
Transit and Equal Altitude
Transit, Geodetic
Universal Instrument
Vertical Circle
Waywiser
Zenith Telescope
Miscellaneous

 

Repeating Circle

A repeating circle is a geodetic instrument with two telescopes, that is designed to reduce errors by repeated observations taken on all parts of the circumference of a circle. The form was developed by the Chevalier de Borda, first executed by Etienne Lenoir in Paris around 1789, and popular for about 50 years.

Collection:

Chollet Delamarre
Gambey
unmarked (Troughton)