A History of the Ordnance SurveyW. A. Seymour |
Contents
The Origins of the Ordnance Survey | 1 |
The Resumption of the Trigonometrical Survey | 31 |
The Geodesy of Roy Mudge and Kater 17841823 | 35 |
The Birth of the Topographical Survey | 44 |
The Beginnings of Reform 181620 | 53 |
The Ordnance Survey becomes a MapPublisher 18011820 | 69 |
The Survey of Ireland to 1847 | 81 |
The Completion of the Primary Triangulation of Scotland | 107 |
Ireland The Land Question and After 18711918 | 209 |
The Ordnance Survey 19141918 | 220 |
Reconstruction after The First World War 19191922 | 230 |
Archaeology The Crawford Period | 237 |
MacLeod and the Davidson Committee 19351939 | 257 |
The Retriangulation 19351939 | 268 |
The Second World War 19391945 | 274 |
The Restoration of the Survey Expansion 19451950 | 286 |
The Superintendency of Lewis Alexander Hall | 119 |
Halls Successor | 127 |
The Scales Dispute Henry James 18541863 | 133 |
Clarke and the Principal Triangulation | 139 |
The Initial Levelling of Great Britain | 145 |
The Surveys of Jerusalem and Sinai | 154 |
The Last Years of Jamess Superintendency and the Transfer to Civil Control 18641880 | 161 |
The Mature Topographical Survey | 168 |
The Expansion 18801891 | 179 |
The Dorington Committee | 185 |
A Period of Consolidation 18941913 | 205 |
The Restoration of the Survey Consolidation and Recession 19501960 | 298 |
The PostWar Trigonometrical Survey and the Third Geodetic Levelling 19451960 | 307 |
The Restoration of the Survey The Reappraisal 19611968 | 318 |
The Topographical Survey After The Second World War | 332 |
Geodetic Developments 19601974 | 344 |
The Restoration of the Survey A New Home and New Aims 19681978 | 350 |
Roys General Instructions for the Officers of Engineers employed in Surveying with | 363 |
Ordnance Survey Contours 184790 | 373 |
OneInch Map The OneInch Map in Colour More New Maps | 385 |
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