UNSW Surveying Instrument Collection

Home Page of the University of New South Wales

http://www.unsw.edu.au

Home Page - School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems (UNSW)

http://www.gmat.unsw.edu.au

The following addresses are links to virtual museums and relevant websites containing information on historical surveying instruments:

Australian University Museums On-Line (AUMOL)

http://aumol.usyd.edu.au

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Macleay Museum

Gosper Lane off Science Road,

 University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Tel: (612) 9351 2274

http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/macleay/welcome.htm

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Australian University Museums Information System (AUMIS)

http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/mcm/aumis

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Virtual Museum of Surveying

http://www.surveyhistory.org

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Instruments of Science and Technology

http://www.antiques-sci-tech.com/

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Calculating Machines

http://www.webcom.com/calc/

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Maison du Géomètre

7, Avenue du Birmingham,

 69004 Lyon, France
Tel: 04 78290052

http://www.geo-anse.com

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Stadtmuseum Aarau

Im Schlössli

Schlossplatz 23, CH-5000 Aarau, Switzerland

Tel: 062 / 836 05 17

http://www.history-of-geodesy.ch

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Virtual Archive of Wild Heerbrugg

by J. Dedual

http://homepage.swissonline.ch/dedual/wild_heerbrugg/

http://www.wild-heerbrugg.com/

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Scientific Instrument Collection

http://website.lineone.net/~bsneesby/index.html

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Museum of the History of Science

Oxford University

Old Ashmolean Building

Broad Street, Oxford, England

Tel: (08 65) 27 72 80

http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/

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Canada Science and Technology Museum

1867 St. Laurent Blvd.

Ottawa, ON K1G 5A3, Canada

Tel: 613-991-3044 (Country code 01)

http://www.sciencetech.technimuses.ca/

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Deutsches Museum

Museumsinsel 1

D-80538 München, Germany

Tel: (0 89) 2 17 91

http://www.deutsches-museum.de/e_index.htm

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Museum of Scientific Instruments

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario

Canada, M5S 1A1

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/utmusi/

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Science Museum

Exhibition Road, South Kensington,

London, England

Tel: (01) 9 38 80 00

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/

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MuseumLink's Collection of Virtual Museums

http://www.museumlink.com/

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Förderkreis Vermessungstechnisches Museum e.V.

Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund

Hansastrasse 3 (P.O. Box 10 12 33)

D-44012 Dortmund, Germany

http://www.vermessungsgeschichte.de/

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National Technical Museum

Prague

http://www.ntm.cz/

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The National Museum of Science & Industry

London

http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/

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The Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Cambridge

http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/

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International Institution for the History of Surveying and Measurement

http://www.fig.net/hsm/index.htm/

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Auctioneers of Fine Art, Antiques and Sculpture

Willoughby, Ohio, USA

http://www.ewolfs.com/

Postal Addresses of Other Museums:

The Lady Denman Heritage Complex

Dent Street, Huskisson 

NSW, Australia (about 2.5 hours South of Sydney)

Tel: (044) 41 5675

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Conservatoire National des Arts et Métier

Rue St.-Martin, Paris

Tel: (1) 42 71 24 14

Some Books on Historical Instruments:

Bennett, J. A. (1987) 'The Divide Circle - A History of Instruments for Astronomy, Navigation and Surveying'. Phaidon-Christie's Limited, Oxford, England

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Kiely, Edmond (1947) 'Surveying Instruments, their H istory and Classroom Use'. Bureau of Publications, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, USA

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Minow, Helmut (1990) 'Historical Surveying Instruments - List of Collections in Europe'. 2nd edition, Verlag Chmielorz, Wiesbaden, Germany

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Richeson, A. W. (1966) 'English Land Measuring to 1800: Instruments and Practice. Massachiusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA

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