1. He comes on stage carrying surveying instruments and is described as a geometer. 2. Surveying instruments have characteristics that make them suitable for certain uses.3. Longer distances emerged before the use of modern surveying instruments . 4. Retrograde verniers are found on some devices, including surveying instruments . 5. :Technologies on the way out but not yet lost might include use of surveying instruments . 6. Older topographic maps were prepared using traditional surveying instruments . 7. The Board's concern also centered around the difficulty of finding a more accurate surveying instrument . 8. Typically, engineers use a surveying instrument called a theodolite to calculate how much a building leans. 9. In 1861 he invented a straight line surveying instruments , especially the theodolite, whose construction he simplified. 10. The main surveying instruments in use around the world are the theodolite, tripod when in use.