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Analemmatic dial
A woman standing in the Japanese Tea Garden, San Francisco
Booklet for the analemmatic dial
Colour transparency
documentary artifact: planetimer
Equation of Time Cam
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Instructions for the nocturnal
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timekeeping t&e: dial, portable: dial, pocket
timekeeping t&e: nocturnal
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Bird, Henry P.
Egan Co
Lietz, A, & Co
Schiavone, Eugene
The Long Now Foundation
Western Pipe and Steel Company
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Fairsky [ex Barnes, Attacker, and Castle Forte] (1941)
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Planetimer
A woman standing in the Japanese Tea Garden, San Francisco (Photographic print)
How to convert the nocturnal reading to standard time (Instructions for the nocturnal)
The Custom Pocket Sundial (Booklet for the analemmatic dial)
Nocturnal
A starboard bow view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner Oriana (1960) under way passing under the Oakland Bay Bridge at San Francisco. (Colour transparency)
A starboard bow view of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger liner Oriana (1960) under way passing under the Oakland Bay Bridge at San Francisco. (Colour transparency)
Attacker (1941) (Technical drawing)
H.M.S. "ATTACKER" (1942) DOCKING PLAN (Technical drawing)
Liquid compass
Equation of Time Cam
Analemmatic dial
Shadow pin (Shadow pin)
A distant view of the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco from on board the container ship Seatrain Valley Forge (1978) which is inward bound. (Colour transparency)
A view of the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco from on board the container ship Seatrain Valley Forge (1978) which is inward bound (Colour transparency)
A distant starboard side view, taken from above and well ahead of the beam, of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Iberia (1954) passing under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. (Colour transparency)
A distant starboard near broadside view, taken from above and just ahead of the beam, of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company passenger/cargo liner Iberia (1954) passing under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco. (Colour transparency)
H.M.S. "ATTACKER" (1942) BOOKLET OF GENERAL PLANS SHEET No. 3 (As Fitted) (Technical drawing)
Attacker (1941) (Technical drawing)
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