Total Station
name: label: maker
content: Zeiss
notes: label: Description
content: A total station is a theodolite equipped with an electronic distance measuring instrument. As such, it measures horizontal angles, vertical angles, and distances. Zeiss began making total stations in 1968. Elta, the Zeiss term for these instruments, stands for "electronic tacheometer." The Elta 46 had an angular accuracy of ±3 seconds, an infrared light source, and a range of 1.2 miles. New, it cost $12,483.
label: Description
content: The Arizona State Office of the federal Bureau of Land Management purchased this example in 1983, the year it was introduced, and used it for cadastral surveys on the Navajo Indian Reservation. The inscription reads "ZEISS Elta 46 West Germany 154655." An auxiliary tag reads "U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 0266471."
label: Description
content: Ref: Zeiss, Operating Instructions for Elta 46 Electronic Tacheometer (1983).
label: Description
content: Dick Thomas, "Surveying the Navajo Nation," American Congress on Surveying and Mapping Bulletin 86 (1983): 17-18 and front cover.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Surveying and Geodesy
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content: Measuring & Mapping
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Zeiss. Operating Instructions for Elta 46 Electronic Tacheometer
label: Related Publication
content: American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0264.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0264
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0264.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: total station
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in; 36.83 cm