The " cuadr�ngulo " was rarely a perfect square because the Fathers had no surveying instruments at their disposal and simply measured off all dimensions by foot.
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The acquired Pentax surveying instrument business ( later IT Asahi Co ., Ltd . ) and camera business ( now Ricoh Co ., Ltd . in 2011, respectively.
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In 1915, he said, he lost his surveying instruments while eluding an Australian patrol, which explained why many of his assertions were vague and inconclusive, and his calculations inaccurate.
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The American was conducting " unauthorized work " with a special surveying instrument near Krasnoyarsk-26, 2, 000 miles east of Moscow, said a spokesman for Russia's Federal Security Service.
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Surveying instruments helped travelers face the correct way when praying, and a book carried by pilgrims is filled with illustrated drawings of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
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Climatic conditions were responsible for the destruction of most of the evidence, however, a number of excavated surveying instruments and measuring rods have yielded convincing evidence of early cartographic activity.
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The American was conducting " unauthorized work " with a special surveying instrument near Krasnoyarsk-26 in eastern Siberia on Thursday, said Alexander Mikhailov, a spokesman for Russia's Federal Security Service.
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His father, James M . Lilley ( 1802 1875 ), a prominent landowner and patented inventor of surveying instruments, was commissioned in 1838 as a colonel in the Virginia militia.
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In the first decade of the 20th century, Keuffel and Esser introduced a new line of surveying instruments based on the work of John Paoli, an Italian immigrant in Hoboken.
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Heinrich Wild ( 1877 1951 ) of Zeiss to manufacture it, Wild moved to the city of Jena and became head of the new Zeiss branch responsible for surveying instruments, GEO.