I imagine that any clinometer would have worked. There's a long history of attitude measuring equipment that can be improvised. Cross staff, back staff, quadrant (protractor + plumb bob), astrolabe, various clinometers. The catch is having the tables or formulas to being able to translate the data into usable coordinates.
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