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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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Azimuth Mirror
azimuth mirror, compass
Azimuth Mirror box
Azimuth Mirror shadow pin
binnacle
Binnacle and compass
Compass and binnacle
Compass card
Compass deflector
data processing t&e: computing instrument, navigational(azimuth and time proof plate)
Dry card compass
Dry card compass box
Dry card compass winding key
Dry compass card
Navigational computing instrument
original art: print
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Sounding tube
surveying & navigational t&e: binnacle
surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass: compass, dry
surveying & navigational t&e: circle, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, deflector
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: machine, sounding
surveying & navigational t&e: depth sounding equipment: machine, sounding(deep sea - electric)
water transport: cargo vessel: clipper, tea (later a training ship at Greenhithe)
water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS.later a training ship at Greenhithe)
water transport accessory: azimuth mirror, compass
water transport accessory: binnacle
water transport accessory: tube, sounding
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Butler, J.
Kelvin & Hughes Ltd
Kelvin & James White Ltd
Kelvin, Bottomly & Baird Ltd; Thomson, William
Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd
Picken, Thomas
Thomson, William
White, James
Wigzell, Eustace Ernest
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Chakdina (1951)
Cutty Sark (1869)
Strathlairg
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Nelson, M. H. H.
Thomson, William
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