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However, two tragic incidents happened soon after the survey team left the region to move further upwards. | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopalmore-in‘Great Theodolite,’ a 500-kg device, has a tryst with history. In 1823, Mr.
Lambton died near Nagpur and in 1825, the device was severely damaged near Bidar. Two centuries after it was used to carry out the mapping of present-day India and beyond, it has come to Hyderabad as an exhibit at a stall in the Survey of India for the Geospatial World Forum conference. The device is now part of the museum at the Survey of India headquarters in Dehradun..