EDM
name: label: secondary maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
label: primary maker
content: Laser Systems & Electronics
notes: label: Description
content: The AutoRanger is a lightweight infrared electronic distance meter (aka EDM) with a range of about two miles. It cost about $9,000 and was introduced in 1977. It was produced by Laser Systems & Electronics for its parent company, Keuffel & Esser. Together with K&E’s Vectron digital theodolite and handheld field computer, it formed a modular electronic surveying system. It was well received but soon displaced by more efficient and less expensive systems. The signature on this example reads "AutoRanger-S / Serial No. 06E6327 / AutoRanger Mfg. by Laser Systems & Electronics Inc. Tullahoma, Tennessee USA 118 / K&E Keuffel & Esser Co. Morristown, N.J. Made in U.S.A."
label: Description
content: Ref: K&E, <i>Electronic Geodetic Instruments</i>.
label: Description
content: Allen Morrison, "From field to map—untouched by human hands," <i>Civil Engineering—ASCE</i> (February 1981).
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: American Society of Civil Engineers. Civil Engineering
label: Related Publication
content: K&E. Electronic Geodetic Instruments
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0174.01
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0174.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0174
objectType: label: Object Name
content: edm
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 15 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 24.13 cm x 38.735 cm x 26.67 cm