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Aircraft compass
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Celestial navigational globe box
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data processing t&e: computing instrument: computer, tidal
documentary artifact: globe, celestial: globe, star
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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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Tibbits, David Stanley
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Mark V (Liquid compass and binnacle)
Sextant telescope
Sextant
Compass card
Tidal computer
'Hezzanith' Artificial Horizon (Artificial Pendulum Horizon)
Azimuth compass
Liquid compass and binnacle
Liquid compass - aircraft
patrol type (Liquid compass)
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)
Celestial navigational globe (Celestial navigational globe pointer)
Sextant shaded eyepiece
Sounding quintant shade eyepiece
Sextant shaded eyepiece
Sextant box
Sextant box key
Sextant sight tube
Sextant sight tube
Sextant telescope
Sextant spanner
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