plane-table

During the two weeks that followed October 20 there were only three or four days that offered any chance of working with the theodolite and plane-table.

The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey 2009

During the two weeks that followed October 20 there were only three or four days that offered any chance of working with the theodolite and plane-table.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

In the hands of the topographers of the Geological Survey, the plane-table is not simply a portable draughting table for the field; it is practically an instrument of triangulation, and all minor positions of the details of topography are determined through its use by trigonometric construction.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 Various

I went on with Imam Sharif, one soldier and a servant carrying the plane-table.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

In order not to offend the sultan's prejudices too much, we determined to dissemble, and I decided not to wear my little camera, and Imam Sharif packed the plane-table out of sight.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

This he must regulate, either by one of the guns in his vicinity, or, better, by the aid of a bearing-plate, a species of plane-table which gives the angular bearing of the object.

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

There were similar, vertical tubes, in pairs, against the fore and aft metal bulkheads; and there was another tube, of the same diameter secured in the form of a circle to a circular plane-table marked with degrees in the roof of a compartment twenty feet astern of ours.

Jimgrim Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1931

A rough plane-table map of the group was made by Hodgeman and myself.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

His plane-table survey and rock collections are practical evidence of work carried out in weather which made it seldom short of an ordeal.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

Stillwell commenced a contoured plane-table survey of the neighbourhood of Winter Quarters.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920