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Aircraft compass
Aircraft pelorus
Airship pelorus
Airship pelorus - aircraft compass
Artificial Pendulum Horizon
Azimuth compass
Azimuth Instrument
Celestial navigational globe
Celestial navigational globe altitude circles
Celestial navigational globe box
Celestial navigational globe pointer
Compass card
Course Corrector
Course indicator
data processing t&e: computing instrument: computer, tidal
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, star
Liquid compass
Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass and binnacle
Navigational globe
Navigational globe pointer
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sextant
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Sextant adjusting spanner
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Sextant box
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Sextant chamois
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Sextant eyepiece tube
Sextant greater angle clamp
Sextant screwdriver
Sextant shaded eyepiece
Sextant sight tube
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Sextant with Artificial Horizon
Sounding quintant
Sounding quintant adjusting pin
Sounding quintant box
Sounding quintant box key
Sounding quintant prism
Sounding quintant shade eyepiece
Sounding quintant spanner
surveying & navigational t&e: artificial horizon
surveying & navigational t&e: azimuth instrument(cross-bar type)
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, boat's(liquid)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, air
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth(course correcting compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid(hand held)
surveying & navigational t&e: course corrector(bearing plate)
surveying & navigational t&e: indicator, course(course delineator)
surveying & navigational t&e: pelorus, aircraft
surveying & navigational t&e: pelorus, airship
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, bubble(with artificial horizon)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, sounding: sextant, double
Tidal computer
water transport: sailing vessel: yacht ?
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Heath & Co. Ltd
Hezzanith
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Eltham, England
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Ayesha (1977)
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Tibbits, David Stanley
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Hezzanith Bubble Horizon Sextant (Sextant with Artificial Horizon)
'Hezzanith' Artificial Horizon (Artificial Pendulum Horizon)
Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass and binnacle
Azimuth compass
patrol type (Liquid compass)
Compass card
Sextant
Sounding quintant
Liquid compass
Sextant shaded eyepiece
Sounding quintant shade eyepiece
Sextant box
Sextant box key
Sextant sight tube
Sextant telescope
Sextant box key
Azimuth Instrument
Sextant box
The Lenthall Course Delineator (Course indicator)
Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe pointer)
Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe)
Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe pointer)
Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe pointer)
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