Surveyor’s vertical alignment target

Artifact Number:

2018-172

Description

A surveyor’s target whose specific use has not been determined.  The tool itself measures 65 cm in length and is housed in a 69 cm long by 15 cm wide by 10 cm high wooden box.  One end of the tool has a clear, paint-free, smooth, metal surface for pivoting on the top of a point while the other has a precision level for determining the vertical plane accurately.  Two dark lines are engraved approximately 1 mm apart along the length of the upper surface.  There are no indicators on the instrument or on the wooden box as to the manufacturer of the instrument or as to which part of CRNL it served.

Details

Keywords:
measuring instrumentation
Date:
~1960
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