Modern Technology

Yesterday his lordship was wandering around the job site when he happened upon the surveyor and his helper. They were setting a pin for something. With todays technology the surveyor only has to touch the head of a finishing nail in the top of a wooden stake to get it's exact location and elevation within a thousandth of an inch. It is amazing technology. A tripod set up over a hundred feet away is reflecting light back and forth to a prism, and the rest is history. So many task can now be done by one person for locating elevation and all the other measurements that used to take at least two people and considerably more time with less accuracy. Now just about every elevation comes from a laser tripod sitting somewhere nearby. Being a generalist Lord Kadizzle was reading a coal publication yesterday. The publication was speculating on how coal haul trucks would soon be self guided. A mine in Australia may be set up by the Japanese that will use GPS technology to drive the haul trucks remotely. The day may come when people sit in an office and drive a three hundred ton truck located a thousand miles away.