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| Abstract: | AbstractDuring recent years a light apparatus has been made up in the Survey of India to provide a basis for minor triangulation. The idea originated with the writer when executing rough triangulation under war conditions, when the need was felt for checking work which had become liable to development of considerable error. The terrain was not such as to allow the measurement of an ordinary base of such a length as half a mile; nor were other facilities present. Accordingly a length of 200 feet was marked out, with the help of a 100-foot steel tape, on a fairly smooth site on rolling ground; and its subtended angle at a distance of about 1500 feet was measured carefully with numerous repetItIons. This 1500-foot length was in turn extended in a similar way to a 3-mile side of the triangulation. No great accuracy was looked for, but enough to rule out the possibility of gross mistake in the irregular triangulation. |
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