The Ordnance Survey in 1953

An excerpt from a newsreel about the latest technology used by Ordnance Survey mapmakers — in 1953. “It used to take two men a whole year to do the mapmaking mathematics that these adding machines and electronic computers can do in an afternoon, with a girl to help.” Wait — girls and computers? Via Map the Universe.

Posted on Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 8:24 PM
Categories: Surveying, Video

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