A short video demonstrating the development of surveyor’s levels referencing instruments held in the ICE Scotland Museum collection (6:12 minutes)
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Virtual Tour of the Museum
This video provides a virtual tour of the museum (14:09 minutes). It requires updating and this will be carried out shortly when new displays have been completed.
Eminent civil engineers
A short video highlighting objects held in the ICE Scotland Museum collection and their associations with eminent civil engineers (4:30 minutes)
World-beating achievements
A short video highlighting some world-beating civil engineering achievements through objects held by the museum (4:43 minutes)
Traffic count recorders
A short video featuring some early automatic traffic count recorders used by Lothian Regional Council (Scotland) from the 1960s (3:54 minutes)
Aids to calculation
A short video featuring some mechanical and manual calculators held in the collection and used as aids to calculation for engineers (4:26 minutes)
Surveyors’ chains and tapes
A short video featuring measuring chains and tapes held by the museum and used by civil engineers and land surveyors (4:39)
Celebrating 50 Years
The museum was founded over 50 years ago in 1971: this short video made in 2021 celebrates this achievement in 20 objects (7:47 minutes)
Why do land surveyors have to thank the National Gallery of Scotland?
Indeed, why do they? Well, it’s because the north-east side of the Gallery was used to calibrate land chains. A series of brass plates were embedded in the base of the building to facilitate calibration of land chains manufactured to measure distance in links or feet. For more information on this see here.
Donation of Tellurometers
The museum has just acquired a pair of Tellurometer MRA3 distance measurers used by the British Antarctic Survey in the early 1970’s (see here).