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#- # Three men looking through a weird mechanical instrument on the roadside at the intersection of Routes 231 and 522 south of Sperryville Tuesday were from the Corps of Engineers and were working on a research project, according to Kenneth Robertson, left, a physicist. The instrument is a “Geodolite,” a laser distance measuring instrument. Robertson and co-workers Bill Allen and Ed Simental, all of the metropolitan area, were working on new techniques to increase the accuracy of surveying. They were projecting a beam to Buck Hollow on Skyline Drive and to Red Oak Mountain at Woodville, then by accounting for and adjusting the temperature and wind velocity a detailed reading could be made. People curious about the affair has assumed many things, including a dam project and powerline survey . . .not so, said Mr. Robertson.
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