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Earth as you've never seen it before
Sergio Díaz Ruiz uses satellite imagery to explore climate change by creating an image of Earth as it might be analysed by a distant alien civilisation
Master of disguise: how a Navy sailor escaped a Napoleonic prison
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aerospace transport: aircraft: flying boat (Curtis)
aerospace transport: airship
Azimuth Circle
Azimuth Circle box
Boat's liquid compass
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surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: circle, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, landing: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, liquid
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, submarine liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, mariner's range finder: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, range finder: compass, liquid
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, torpedo boat destroyer: compass, liquid
water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer, torpedo boat
water transport: fighting vessel: submarine
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Captain Chetwynd
Edward John Dent & Co.
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