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Admiralty Compass Observatory
Agnese, Battista
Alvares, Emanuel
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Bond, Reginald Harold Arthur
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d'Eyncourt, Eustace Henry William Tennyson
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Foreign Papers on
Compass
Correction, M. Bisson's
Compass
Deviemetre,n.d. (Manuscript)
ACO/4/21/2
Notes on Bianchetti
compass
and an Essay titled The
Compass
Doctor: Gowin Knight and the Mariner's
compass
MAA/5
The
Compass
Position in HMS LION, Records of
Compass
Trials, 1912 (Manuscript)
1912 - 1912
ACO/4/18/1
Foreign Papers on
Compass
Correction,
Compass
Compensation ETC., 1884-1890 (Manuscript)
1872
ACO/4/21
Notes on the Bianchetti
compass
and
compass
correction etc., no dates (Manuscript)
MAA/5/2
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1894 - 1894
ACO/S&T/20/2
Miscellaneous photographs, binnacles,
compass
cards and ships, no date, photographs of Cook's
compass
MAA/12/2
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1948
ACO/S&T/10/24
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1907 - 1951
ACO/S&T/17/8
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1893 - 1893
ACO/S&T/20/7
Foreign Papers on
Compass
Correction,
Compass
Compensation by Means of Vertical Soft Iron Cylinders,1884
1884 - 1884
ACO/4/21/3
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1947 - 1947
ACO/S&T/12/4
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
ACO/5/8
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
ACO/5/14
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
ACO/5/20
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1930 - 1930
ACO/5/7
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
ACO/5/12
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
ACO/5/15
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1930 - 1930
ACO/5/5
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1953 - 1954
ACO/5/9
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1889 - 1889
ACO/5/16
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
ACO/5/17
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1930 - 1930
ACO/5/6
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1946 - 1946
ACO/S&T/12/1
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