Ultra-bright green laser beam — 50x brighter than red lasers. Possible surveying applications re: quick traverse placement

“The use of Polaris for azimuth observation has not been popular in land surveying applications due to myths about the difficulty and inconvenience of its use…”

Mathematical recreations and land surveying joined when Thompson submitted a question to the 1766 Gentleman’s Diary connected to the Atherstone Enclosure of 1765