Word: sextant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times decorative, but it is always purposeful. The figureheads usually illustrate the name of the ship, such as the "Abraham Lincoln," or an owner or ship's officer. In any case he was shown complete, from ruffled shirt to whiskers. Again, a stubby little mariner sighting with his sextant advertises the shop of an instrument maker; a "Bell in Hand" proclaims a famous Boston tavern. Thus they all had clarity. And as they were made to be painted in colors, they had directness and simplicity of modeling. Those were qualities which the New England carver understood and his sculpture...
...local magnetism frequently disturbed surveying compasses, he invented a sun-compass, was awarded a medal and $20 in gold by the Franklin Institute. Burt returned from a trip to England in a windjammer to see how well its navigator maintained his course, was thus spurred to invent an equatorial sextant. One of two members of Michigan's early Territorial Legislative Council and later a State Legislator, he was a prime mover in the Sault Sainte Marie Canal project, was generally called "Judge" before he died...
...Atlantic sea. His Son Richard went after him with a line, was followed by Son Harry in a boat, which capsized. With Hamrah partly disabled, the survivors hove to for two days. Then Charles Tillinghast Jr. took the helm, managed to remember how to lay a course by a sextant, brought the ketch limping in to Sydney ten days later...
Ranged in cases around the hall will be the Lindbergh equipment: parachutes, electrically heated clothes, sun helmets, mosquito netting, emergency food rations, landing flares, sextant, chronometers, goggles, stove, tent, cooking utensils, sledge, sea anchors, collapsible rubber boat with mast & sail, emergency outboard motor, fur boots, rifles, revolvers, ammunition, wireless sets, ship's log, maps, charts...
...Queen passed another ship the fog-eye, connected to a loudspeaker, snorted out the news. The outlying islands of the Bermuda group caused a clatter. At Bermuda, Commander Macneil transferred his equipment to a British boat for demonstration behind smoke screens. The Macneil fog-eye, like the Macneil thermoelectric sextant perfected last year (TIME, July 25), functions according to Commander Macneil's thesis that every object not at Absolute Zero (-459.4° F.) radiates heat-like infra-red rays. A two-foot, concave, silvered glass mirror in the fog-eye collects infra-red radiations of objects, focuses the rays...