The Osborne Fire Finder is a type of alidade used by fire lookouts to find a directional bearing (azimuth) to smoke in order to alert fire crews to a wildland fire. The forerunner to the device …

The Osborne Firefinder, designed by W. B. Osborne, has been used for nearly a century to pinpoint fire locations. It is accurate, requires no power to operate, and is a valued piece of …

The 1934 Osborne Firefinder is the most widely used fire plotting instrument in the world today. It is is used acoss America, and in many foreign nations on at least four continents. They were …

2024年5月13日 · Inside every fire lookout tower, one instrument has been a constant companion to lookouts: the Osborne Fire Finder. This device, a mainstay in fire detection, combines …

the Osborne Firefinder is used for estimating the distance of a fire from the lookout point. The First mark near the center of the tape should be directly over the pin in the center of the map. The …

The Osborne Firefinder, designed by W. B. Osborne, has been used for nearly a century to pinpoint fire locations. It is accurate, requires no power to operate, and is a valued piece of …

The Osborne Fire Finder is a type of alidade used by fire lookouts to find a directional bearing to smoke in order to alert fire crews to a wildland fire.

One crucial piece of equipment, the Osborne Fire Finder, is used in lookout towers to determine the directional bearing and location of a wildfire. Foresters place a topographic map of the …

More than 3,000 Osborne firefinders, the most well known of many different fire locator alidades, eventually found their way to mountaintop lookouts all over the world; from New England, to …

2021年6月9日 · The Osborne Firefinder, invented in the early 1900s, is the style of alidade most frequently used in lookout towers, at least here in Idaho. They are quite literally the …