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Astronomical and navigational instruments
Astronomical and navigational instruments
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3. Astronomy demonstrated: instruments and models
Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
Compasses
Course, speed and distance indicators
Electronic navigation
Exploring the Arctic
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aerospace transport: aircraft
Aircraft compass
Alidade
Alidade box
Alidade box base
Alidade box lid
Alidade eyepiece shade
Alidade eyepiece shade
Alidade prism
Alidade shade
Alidade shadow pin
Base of box for the alidade
Battery
Bearing plate
Bearing plate alidade
Bearing plate part?
Binnacle Hood
Boat's Liquid Compass
Boat's liquid compass
Box
Box base
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Bubble Sextant
Bubble sextant
Bubble Sextant battery
Bubble sextant battery
Bubble Sextant battery charger
Bubble Sextant battery charger part
Bubble Sextant box
Bubble sextant box
Bubble Sextant bubble
Bubble Sextant lightbulb
Bubble sextant part
Bubble Sextant reflecting flat
Bubble Sextant reflecting flat?
Bubble Sextant reflecting flat holder
Clamp, Corrector Magnet
Compass
Compass, Boat's Liquid
Compass bowl
Compass card
Compass Spares
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational: computer, electronic
Domed hood
Electronic computer
Fitting, quadrantal corrector
Gyrosciopic Sextant
Gyroscipic Sextant
Gyroscopic Sextant
Gyroscopic sextant battery charger
Gyroscopic sextant battery charger part?
Gyroscopic sextant box
Gyroscopic sextant handle
Gyroscopic sextant lightbulb
Gyroscopic sextant shade
Gyro sextant
Heeling Error Instrument
Lid of box for the alidade
Liquid and binnacle
Liquid compass
Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass - aircraft compass
Liquid compass; shade
Liquid compass and binnacle
Liquid compass and binnacle - submarine
Photo-electric transmitting compass
Photo-electric transmitting compass and binnacle
Prism, Alidade
Quadrantal corrector fitting
Quintant
Sextant
Sextant box
Sextant brush
Sextant eyepiece
Sextant Gyro
Sextant lightbulb
Sextant part
Sextant sight tube
Sextant spanner
Sextant telescope
Sextant telescope mounting bracket
shade
SOLD Bubble Sextant
Spherical trig problem solving instrument
surveying & navigational t&e: alidade
surveying & navigational t&e: alidade(Schmalcalder)
surveying & navigational t&e: alidade(schmalcalder type)
surveying & navigational t&e: alidade(telescopic)
surveying & navigational t&e: bearing plate
surveying & navigational t&e: bowl, compass(liquid mariners compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: bowl, liquid compass(for projector compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: clamp, corrector magnet
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, air
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid: compass, photo-electric transmitting
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, boat's liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid(azimuth)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's: compass, liquid(E Boat)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, photo-electric
surveying & navigational t&e: compass spares
surveying & navigational t&e: fitting, quadrantal corrector(compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: heeling error instrument
surveying & navigational t&e: prism, alidade(schmalcalder type)
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, bubble
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant, gyro
Trommel sextant
water transport: fighting vessel: E-boat
water transport: steam vessel
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AEG
Askaniawerke AG
Bamberg, Carl
Boosman, W.
Deutsche Seewarte
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Plath, C.
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