An engineer's tilting/dumpy-style optical level mounted on a tripod, used to establish and check horizontal reference lines during leveling surveys. T..

A plane table surveying setup: a flat drawing board mounted on a tripod, used together with an alidade to plot bearings and features directly onto pap..

A prismatic compass with its sighting vane and folding prism lid open, showing the graduated compass card used to read bearings. Surveyors use the pri..

A traditional metal-link surveyor's chain with looped handles and marker tags at intervals, historically used for chain surveying and distance measure..

A brass surveyor's compass with folding sighting vanes on either side of a central magnetic compass box, used to measure magnetic bearings between poi..

A telescopic alidade — a sighting instrument with a small mounted telescope, level, and vertical circle used together with a plane table for graphical..

A drafting/tracing table with a glass top mounted on an adjustable metal stand, used by draftsmen and surveyors to trace and overlay plans and drawing..