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In 1830 Bordon invented a new apparatus for accurately measuring the base line for the upcoming
Massachusetts' Trigonometrical Survey. It was 50 feet long, enclosed in a tube, and used with four compound microscopes. The tube and microscopes were mounted on trestles, and adjustable to any direction.
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Most, if not all, of the original field notes from Borden's trigonometric survey of
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