Author： Ray Peter N.
Publisher： Maney Publishing
ISSN： 1752-2706
Source： Survey Review, Vol.11, Iss.86, 1952-10, pp. : 347-356
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Abstract
While at first sight there appears to be considerable difference in surveying practice between American and British engineers, the underlying principles are of course the same. Perhaps the major contrast is in terminology; for example, the term transit is invariably used for the (transit) theodolite, stadia for tacheometry, spiral for transition, elevation for reduced level, whilst the telescope is plunged, not transitted. These and other differences in nomenclature are at first misleading, but are soon in regular use by the visitor to the States.
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