The tellurometer was the first successful microwave electronic distance measurement equipment. The name derives from the Latin tellus, meaning Earth. The...
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Trevor Wadley (section Tellurometer)
Loop circuit for greater stability in communications receivers and the Tellurometer, a land surveying device. Wadley was born in 1920 in Durban, South Africa...
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Endurance Cliffs. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960–62. Named by Advisory Committee on...
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completely mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and US Navy air photos, 1959–63. Named by the NZ-APC for Captain...
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Elizabeth Range. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by the United States Advisory...
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Surveyor's chain Surveyor's compass Tachymeter (surveying) Tape (surveying) Tellurometer Theodolite Half theodolite Plain theodolite Simple theodolite Great theodolite...
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the north slopes of the Queen Elizabeth Range. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for Edgar L. Doss...
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Sherwin Peak was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960–62. It was named by the United States...
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Lankester and Hoffman Point to the Ross Ice Shelf. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959-63. Named by US-ACAN for Cdr. Lloyd...
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of Longstaff Peaks into the Ross Ice Shelf. }Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys (1961-62) and Navy air photos (1960). Named by US-ACAN for Cdr...
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northeast slopes of the Queen Elizabeth Range. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for Egon Dorrer...
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speed of light in air that used a toothed wheel. Laser rangefinder Lidar Tellurometer Rüeger 2012, p. 15. Bergstrand 1952. Froome & Essen 1969. Bergstrand...
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Tachymeter Taximeter, measure usually includes a time component as well Tellurometer Travelling microscope Angular measuring instrument Altimeter, height...
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the process of industrialising a unique South African invention, the Tellurometer, the first successful microwave electronic distance measurement equipment...
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Tentacle Ridge. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959-63. Named by the Advisory Committee...
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Peaks were mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960–62. They were named by the United States...
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accurate measurement of long distances. Trevor Lloyd Wadley developed the Tellurometer during the 1950s. It measures long distances using two microwave transmitter/receivers...
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ridge. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959–63, and named descriptively by the...
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rediscovering Vokes Hill while surveying the track, as a new device called a Tellurometer was being introduced. It used radio waves for distance measurement, and...
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northwest of Mount Kopere in the Cobham Range. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by the Advisory Committee...
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8 km) east of Smith Bluff in the Nash Range. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for Karl E. Ricker...
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Henry Mesa. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959–63. Named by Advisory Committee on...
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1964, and a member of one of the survey parties which carried out a tellurometer traverse passing through the Leckie Range in 1965. "Leslie Peak". Geographic...
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Wales Glacie. Mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by the United States Advisory...
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Pretorius at the University of Pretoria in Pretoria, South Africa 1959, Tellurometer was the first successful microwave electronic distance measurement equipment...
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Shelf, Antarctica. It was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959–63, and named by the Advisory Committee...
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Glacier in the northwest part of the Miller Range. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960–62. Named by US-ACAN for Dr. Mort D...
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the Holyoake Range of the Churchill Mountains. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960–62. Named by US-ACAN for Paul L. Adams...
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(20 km; 13 mi) west-southwest of Junction Spur. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1959-63. Named by US-ACAN for Ralph E. Ash...
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Lyttelton on the south side of Nimrod Glacier. Mapped by the USGS from tellurometer surveys and Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for William J...
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