What is the difference between a barnacle and a binnacle? Anyone? Anyone? Well, yes, both are related to the sea, but the difference ends there. A barnacle is a small marine animal that likes to ...
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Why ships have two big metal balls on the compass stand, the simple fix for a steel ship’s magnetic errors
Modern steel ships warp a magnetic compass with both permanent and induced magnetism, and the binnacle is packed with clever countermeasures to cancel it out. This breaks down hard iron vs soft iron ...
II. AN important objection was made to me some years ago by Capt. Evans against the use of quadrantal correctors in the Navy, that they would prevent the taking of bearings by the prismatic azimuth ...
THIS first volume, which is to be followed by a second devoted to ships' compasses, takes a wide sweep over physical science generally. Sound waves, light waves, kathode rays, Röntgen rays and ...
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Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...
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