They were more than the sum of their parts, 19th-century surveyors, the unheralded vanguards of the Old West who established original geographical boundaries and retraced and identified existing borders in accordance with legal descriptions. Part-astronomers, part-geologists, part-engineers, these mapmakers were also arbitrators when land lines were in dispute. Wars have been fought and people killed over boundary disputes in which the surveyor was often the common denominator.Read More ..read more

The oldest copper object ever found was a simple pendant made from a native copper nugget over 10,000 years ago somewhere in Asia Minor. This is where the triumphal career and the increasingly diversified uses of this metal all began. It long history evidences the versatility and the ease with which it can be worked ..read more