International Institution for
the History of Surveying and Measurement
A Permanent Institution within the International
Federation of Surveyors (FIG)
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Collections
Collections that are of interest to the
International Institution for the History of Surveying & Measurement
include instruments, books and documents. There are numerous collections of
old surveying instruments around the world, many of which are not catalogued
or listed in any form. For Europe there is a listing of collections in
Historische Vermessungsinstrumente (Historical Surveying Instruments) by Helmut
Minow. 2nd edition.
1990. Verlag Chmielorz GmbH, Wiesbaden. ISBN
3-87124-064-8.
The listing does not include private
collections.
Many museums and similar establishments
have small collections but from this reference it will be obvious where the
main collections are housed.
For collections of historical books and
documents relating to surveying and kindred subjects sources are at present
not comprehensively listed. In London, for example, there are good sized
collections at the libraries of :
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The
National Museum of Science & Industry, London
Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2DD, UK
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The
British Museum, London
Gt Russell St, London WC1B 3DG
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Royal
Geographical Society
1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR, UK
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Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors
12 Great George St, Westminster, London SW1P 3AD,
UK
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Royal
Astronomical Society
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V 0NL
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Royal
Society
6 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
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National
Maritime Museum
Greenwich, London SE10 9NF, UK
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Royal
Greenwich Observatory
(Records held at University of Cambridge Library)
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India
Office Library and Records
at the British Library
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The
Museum of the History of Science
Broad St, Oxford, OX1 3AZ UK
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The
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Free School Lane, Cambridge, CB2 3RH,UK
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Museum
of American History
Washington D.C. USA
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National
Technical Museum
Kostelni 42, Prague 7, Czech Republic
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Deutsches
Museum München
München, Germany
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Museum
für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt Dortmund
Hansastrasse 3, D-4600 Dortmund 1, Germany
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Epact:
Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Epact is an electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific
instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of
Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence
, the British Museum, London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.
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Surveying Museum
Locked Bag 40, Coorparoo Mail Centre, Q 4151, Australia
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Technical Museum
in Zagreb, Croatia
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Museum of Surveying, Lansing, MI, USA
- Virtual Museum of Surveying
- University of New South Wales
Virtual Surveying Instrument
Collection
Surveying Instrument Collection, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia
This virtual museum provides photographs and short descriptions and
particulars of the (presently) 100 instruments held by the closed access
UNSW Surveying Instrument Collection. The collection contains
'scientific and mathematical instruments', 'theodolites', 'levels' and 'EDM
instruments' that were donated by government departments, companies and
individual surveyors or were kept from inhouse stock on reaching
obsolescence. For example the collection includes a 1959 Geodimeter
NASM-2A electronic distance meter and the Watts & Sons theodolite used
for the setting out of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (1925-1931).
http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au/final_year_thesis/f_pall/html/index.html
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