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Land Surveying History Hub is a place for land surveyors to discuss and share surveying history for education of future generations of surveyors.  As a member of this Hub, you can contribute to the Surveying History Timeline and help Build land surveying time capsules. Contribute what your experience and knowledge to the first ever interactive timeline of land surveying history.

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For general reference, here is a 1881 “Synchronological Chart of Universal History” from the Rumsey Map Collections which is one of the best chart titles of all time, and stretched 23 feet long. 

A huge and impressive twenty three foot long chart showing 5,885 years of history, from 4004 B.C.. to 1881 A.D. First issued in 1871, Adams put out several editions in many formats. Rosenberg and Grafton in "Cartographies of Time" say that as a timeline, Adams Synchronological Chart "was ninetheenth-century America's surpassing achievement in complexity and synthetic power."

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