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Thataway; the story of the magnetic compass.
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- South Brunswick, A. S. Barnes [1970]
- 1970
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSD 72-311 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Notes on compass work [by] Kemp & Young. Revised ed.
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- Sevenoaks, Kandy Publications; [London], [Distributed by G. Philip], 1972.
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSD 77-643 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.The Spur book of map and compass / [by] Terry Brown and Rob Hunter.
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- Bourne End : Spurbooks, [1977,c1975]
- 1977-1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-Map Div. GA151 .B77 1977 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
An essay on the variation of the compass, [microform] shewing how far it is influenced by a change in the direction of the ship's head, with an exposition of the dangers arising to navigators from not allowing for this change of variation. Interspersed with practical observations and remarks.
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- Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and J. Murray, 1817.
- 1817
Lettre de M. de La Hire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences à M.**** sur une nouvelle forme de boussole.
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- [Paris, La veuve de Sebastien-Marbre (ramoisy, 1687]
- 1687
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KB 1687 80-1061 [Also in microfilm in: *ZV-pv OEG v. 19, no. 21] Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Réponse de M. de La Hire à l'article de la Republique des lettres, où il est parlé de sa nouvelle boussole. Á M.***.
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- [Paris, Imprimé par la veuve de Sebastien-Marbre Cramoisy, 1687]
- 1687
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *KB 1687 80-1062 [Also on microfilm in: *ZV-pv OEG v. 19, no. 22] Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Zhi nan che yu zhi nan zhen= The South-pointing carriage and the mariner's compass / Li Shuhua zhu.
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- Taipei, Yi wen yin shu guan (Yee Wen Publishing Co.), 1959.
- 1959
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OVL 82-331 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Maps & compasses : a user's handbook / by Percy W. Blandford.
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- Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Tab Books, c1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-Map Div. GA151 .B53 1984 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Map & compass fundamentals orienteering / by Toy Martin [and] Dave Lotty.
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- Sydney : Reed, 1976.
- 1976
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JAY K-52 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.The basic essentials of map and compass / by Cliff Jacobson ; illustrations by Cliff Moen.
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- Merrillville, Ind. : ICS Books, c1988.
- 1988
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-Map Div. GV199.4 .J33 1988 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Contributions to terrestrial magnetism, the variation of the compass [microform]. From observations made in the United States Naval Service during the period from 1881 to 1894.
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- Washington, Govt. print. off., 1894.
- 1894
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *ZV-354 no. 1-10 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Map and compass / Toy Martin ; illustrated by Richard Gregory.
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- North Ryde : Methuen Australia, 1984.
- 1984
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Map Div. 93-6956 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Outward Bound map & compass handbook / Glenn Randall.
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- New York, NY : Lyons & Burford, c1989.
- 1989
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-Map Div. GV200.4 .R364 1989 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Land navigation : routefinding with map & compass / Wally Keay ; edited by Nicholas Gair.
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- London : Duke of Edinburgh's Award, 1989.
- 1989
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-Map Div. GV200.4 .K43 1989 Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Deuber's, Dr. u. Prof., Geschichte der Schifffahrt im Atlantischen Ozean : zum Beweis, dass Amerika schon lange vor Chr. Colombo, und auch der Compass ... vor Flavio Gioja entdeckt worden sey : angehängt ist Chr. Colombo's eigener Bericht an Raphael Sanxis ...
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- Bamberg [Germany] : Bey C.F. Kunz, 1814.
- 1814
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HAL (Deuber, F. X. A. Geschichte der schifffahrt im Atlantischen Ozean) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Ships' compasses : including the subjects of binnacles and swinging ship. Remarks and instructions collated and arranged by Commodore Thornton A. Jenkins; Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department.
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- Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1869.
- 1869
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text KAK (United States. Hydrographic Office. [Publication 19]) Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
On taking bearings : a simple treatise on bearings, what they are and how to use them from a military standpoint / by H. P. Walsh.
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- London : John Murray, 1915
- 1915
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VWI (Walsh, H. P. On taking bearings) Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The ship's compass, including general magnetism, theory, practice, and calculations relating to magnetic and gyro compasses, by G. A. A. Grant and J. Klinkert.
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- [London] Routledge and K. Paul [1952]
- 1952
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFB (Grant, G. A. A. Ship's compass) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFB (Grant, G. A. A. Ship's compass) Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The mariner's compass rectified : containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass ; with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars, and the points of the compass upon which they rise and set ... With the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation. Also a table of the latitudes and longitudes of places / By Andrew Wakeley. Enlarged with many useful additions, by J. Atkinson.
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- London : Printed for W. and J. Mount, and T. Page, 1763.
- 1763
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008268256Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFB (Wakely, A. Mariner's compass rectified) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.The Anschütz gyro compass : history, description, theory, practical use.
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- London : [s.n.], 1910
- 1910
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Anschuetz & Co. Anschuetz gyro compass) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Dissertation sur l'origine de la boussole / par Mr D. A. Azuni ...
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- Paris : H. Nicolle, 1809.
- 1809
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Azuni, D. A. Dissertation sur l'Origine de la Boussole) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.An essay on the variation of the compass, shewing how far it is influenced by a change in the direction of the ship's head : with an exposition of the dangers arising to navigators from not allowing for this change of variation, interspersed with practical observations and remarks / by William Bain.
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- Edinburgh : Printed for W. Blackwood, 1817.
- 1817
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Bain, W. Essay on the variation of the compass) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Practical guide for compensation of compasses without bearings. Translated by W. Bottomley with a preface by Kelvin William Thomson.
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- Portsmouth, Griffin, 1885.
- 1885
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008268397Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Collet, A. J. Practical guide) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Compasses and how to know them, for the use of midshipmen, apprentices, and others ...
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- Glasgow, J. Brown & Son, Ltd., 1921.
- 1921
Construction et usage d'un nouveau compas azimutal a réflexion, qui réunit au double avantage de l'octant & de la boussole ...
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- Havre, Faure, 1779.
- 1779
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Degaulle, J. B. Construction et Usage d'un Nouveau Compas Azimutal à Réflexion) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.The prismatic compass and how to use it: a pocket manual on military magnetic compasses. With 41 illustrations, plates and diagrams. / Tr.from the French of Paul Dériaz.
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- London : E. R. Watts & son, 1917.
- 1917
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Dériaz, P. Prismatic compass and how to use it) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.The mariner's compass in an iron ship. how to keep it efficient, and use it intelligently with some remarks on electric installation in its relation to the compass by J. Whitly Dixon.
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- Portsmouth, Eng. : Griffin, 1898.
- 1898
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Dixon, J. W. Mariner's compass in an iron ship) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Munro's Electricity and the magnetic compass, by G.E. Earl [and] J.W.S. Taylor.
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- Glasgow, J. Munro [1963]
- 1963
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Earl, G. E. Munro's electricity and the magnetic compass) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Elementary manual for the deviations of the compass in iron ships. Arranged in a series of questions and answers, intended for the use of seamen, adjusters of compasses, and navigation schools, and as introduction and companion to the Admiralty manual for the deviations of the compass.
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- London, J.D. Potter, 1895.
- 1895
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Evans, F. J. Elementary manual for the deviations of the compass) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.The ship's compass, including general magnetism, theory, practice and calculations relating to magnetic and gyro compasses, by G. A. A. Grant and J. Klinkert.
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- London, Routledge and K. Paul, 1970.
- 1970
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Grant, G. A. A. Ship's compass) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Admiralty manual of the gyroscopic compass 1925.
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- London, H.M. Stationery off., 1926.
- 1926
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Great Britain. Admiralty. Admiralty manual of the gyroscopic compass) 1925 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Pivots and caps in compasses, by R.J. Bray, lieutenant R.N.V.R. Compass department, Admiralty.
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- London, Pub. by H.M. Stationary Off. [printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd.] 1917.
- 1917
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Great Britain. Admiralty. Pivots and caps in compasses) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Admiralty manual for ascertaining and applying the deviations of the compass caused by the iron in a ship / edited by F.J. Evans ... and Archibald Smith ... ; published by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
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- London : Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, and sold by J.D. Potter ..., 1863.
- 1863
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008268645Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Great Britain. Hydrographic Office. Admiralty manual) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Finding the error of the marine compass on board ship. By B.F. Greene ... Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department.
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- Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1875.
- 1875
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Greene, B. F. Finding the error of the marine) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.McDuffie's discovery of the natural causes for the variations of the magnetic needle of the compass.
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- Durham, The Seeman Printery, 1910.
- 1910
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Guthrie, W. A. McDuffie's discovery) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Magnetic compasses and magnetometers.
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- London, Hilger, 1968.
- 1968
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Hine, A. Magnetic compasses and magnetometers) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.From lodestone to gyro-compass, by H. L. Hitchins and W. E. May.
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- London, New York, Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications [1952]
- 1952
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Hitchins, H. From lodestone to gyro-compass) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.From lodestone to gyro-compass, by H.L. Hitchins and W.E. May.
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- New York, Philosophical Library [1953]
- 1953
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Hitchins, H. L. From lodestone to gyro-compass) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.The mathematical theory of the deviations of the compass : arranged for the use of the Cadets at the U. S. Naval Academy / by J. A. Howell.
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- Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1879.
- 1879
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008857009Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Howell, J. A. Mathematical theory of the deviations) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.A treatise on compass compensation, a textbook for academies and colleges, and a reference manual for navigating officers [by] Captain L. V. Kielhorn ...
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- New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, inc., 1942.
- 1942
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Kielhorn, L. V. Treatise on compass compensation) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Lettre à M. le baron A. de Humboldt, sur l'invention de la boussole / par J. Klaproth.
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- Paris : Libr. orientale de P. Dondey-Dupré, 1834.
- 1834
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Klaproth, H. J. von. Lettre à M. le Baron A. de Humboldt)] Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.El compas magnético, por el teniente de navio Gabriel Malleville ...
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- [Río Santiago] Escuela naval militar, 1932.
- 1932
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Malleville, G. Compas magnetico) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Compass adjustment; a handbook for ship's officers and yachtsmen.
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- New York, Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications, 1951.
- 1951
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (May, W. E. Compass adjustment) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Ship magnetism and the magnetic compass.
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- Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press, 1963.
- 1963
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Merrifield, F. G. Ship magnetism) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Magnetism and deviation of the compass. For the use of students in navigation and science schools.
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- London, Longmans, 1872.
- 1872
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Merrifield, J. Magnetism and deviation of the compass) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Practical compass adjustment on iron, composite and wooden vessels; compass deviation, its various causes and proper cures, by Captain W. J. Smith.
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- Seattle, Wash. [Denny-Coryell co., printers, 1903]
- 1903
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Check with Staff Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Smith, W. J. Practical compass adjustment on iron) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Handbook of magnetic compass adjustment and compensation. [By] Nye S. Spencer ... and George F. Kucera ... April 1944. Approved by United States Navy department, Bureau of ships, Washington, D. C.
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- Washington, U.S. Govt. print. off., 1944.
- 1944
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Spencer, N. S. Handbook of magnetic compass adjustment. 1944) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Handbook of magnetic compass, adjustment and compensaton. / [By] Nye S. Spencer...and George F. Kucera...April 1945. Approved by United States Navy department, Bureau of ships, Washington, D.C.
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- Washington : U.S. Govt. print. off., 1945.
- 1945
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Spencer, N. S. Handbook of magnetic compass adjustment. 1945) 2nd ed. Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.The mariner's compass, containing a thorough explanation of the fundamental principles of its construction and the easy methods of obtaining the "correct direction" ...
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- Glasgow, J. Brown & Son, 1923.
- 1923
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Suter, E. A. Mariner's compass) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Handbook of magnetic compass adjustment [by Nye S. Spencer and George F. Kucera]
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- Washington, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, 1969.
- 1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (United States. Naval oceanographic office. Handbook of magnetic compass adjustment) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.
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