Total station problems
Laura Lüll
KRG11/21
Total station: Problems
1. Distinguish between transits and theodolites.
- Transits and theodolites are instruments for measuring horizontal and vertical
angles. The distinction between these instruments is not very clear. At first, both of
instruments were called theodolites. The instruments that were manufactured with
long telescopes and could not be inverted end for end were called theodolites. As
technology developed, people started making instruments with shorter telescopes
that could be inverted or transited – these machines were called transits. Time
went on and in the end most instruments – both theodolites and transits were
manufactured with telescopes witch could be inverted. Now, the original
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