Winter 2024 – Did You Know?
Did You Know?
Civil engineers have a very particular set of skills. Skills that have been acquired and taught over many centuries dating back to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia when humans started to abandon a nomadic existence. Over the next several newsletters we will be counting down 15 interesting things that civil engineers know, following is number 8.
The differences between a total station and a theodolite.
Civil engineers know their way around surveying equipment. We know that a total station uses GPS, lasers, and distances to develop point clouds. Theodolites, or auto levels, simply can detect the change in elevation between two points, without distance measurements.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/15-things-only-civil-engineers-know
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