Osborne Fire Finder
This is the Osborne Fire Finder at Black Mountain Lookout. It is an alidade used to read the azimuth and elevation of a fire.
Digging Deeper: See Osborne Fire Finder on Wikipedia, this excellent video tutorial on the Osborne, and Chapter 4: "Operation of the Fire-Finder" and Chapter 6 "Locating and Reporting Fires", in the 1958 NPS Handbook for Fire Lookouts
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Osborne Fire Finder
This is the Osborne Fire Finder at Black Mountain Lookout. It is an alidade used to read the azimuth and elevation of a fire.
Digging Deeper: See Osborne Fire Finder on Wikipedia, this excellent video tutorial on the Osborne, and Chapter 4: "Operation of the Fire-Finder" and Chapter 6 "Locating and Reporting Fires", in the 1958 NPS Handbook for Fire Lookouts
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Uploaded on August 10, 2019
Taken on July 20, 2019