• Kern DKM1 theodolite

    From akmainiac@21:1/5 to HoltSurvey on Mon Sep 28 18:41:32 2020
    On Wednesday, June 24, 1998 at 11:00:00 PM UTC-8, HoltSurvey wrote:
    Hello Peter:
    While surveying for portable (helicopter) seismic exploration operations in remote parts of the Rockies, (This is in the early 80's) I used a Wild T-Zero which was also referred to as a "mountain theodolite". It was very small, only
    read to the nearest minute, and the horizontal circle doubled as a compass. Peter Legere wrote:
    My spare theodolite is a Kern DKM1. I had occasion to take it in for repair >recently and was told that it was a rare and desirable instrument and known >as a "mountain transit".
    It is supposidly the smallest theodolite ever made.
    <snip>
    I would be interested to know if any of you have one and if there are, in >fact, smaller theodolites out there.
    Robert A. Holt, LS
    Holt Survey Associates
    Woodstock, Vermont

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