BBC Two - What the Romans Did for Us, Series 1, Arteries of the Empire The Romans' ingenious surveying methods that enabled them to build arrow-straight roads. www.bbc.co.uk

Dear Herbert:

Many thanks – very interesting.

I’ve not paid much attention to the history of surveying instruments, but I do remember being impressed by a short program years ago on BBC TV in a series whose title was something like “What Did the Romans Do for Us?”. This particular program was about their surveying techniques and tools, in particular those used for planning and constructing impressively lengthy aqueducts.

Cheers

Brian

On 24/10/2024, 11:15, "Members" <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

Dear colleagues:

As these pictures show, surveying in the 17th century was very laborious:

Technical Marvels, Part 8: Historical Surveying Instruments – Communications of the ACM <https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/technical-marvels-part-8-historical-surveying-instruments/> Posted Oct 23 2024

see also:

List of 77 blog posts on the history of analog and digital computing, technology, automatons, robots, and scientific instruments (mathematics, astronomy, surveying, time measurement, mechanical looms) published by the Communication of the ACM, New York, 2017-2024,

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27909.97760 <http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27909.97760>

Best wishes,

Herbert Bruderer