Profile tracer
The Profile Tracer was an instrument that was moved through the site on a two-wheeled handcart and with which the topography of a site was automatically recorded on a rotating drum. This should make the previously customary teams of surveyors superfluous.
The device was developed in 1913 by Vannevar Bush , then still a student at Tufts University . The Profile Tracer was registered as a patent in the United States Patent Office on February 2, 1912 under publication number US1048649 A. Vannevar Bush is registered as the inventor.
Individual evidence
- ^ Vannevar Bush's Profile Tracer . In: americanhistory.si.edu . Retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ↑ patent profile tracer. US 1048649 A . In: google.com/patents . Retrieved February 8, 2016.