Marching line
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Short description: Lines on a compass
Marching lines are a pair of lines drawn on the glass of a compass, and arranged at 45 degrees to each other. These are an essential component in hiking through the wilderness. Most modern compasses have adjustable luminous marching lines.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
History
See also
- Azimuth
- Beam compass
- Circumferentor, or surveyor's compass
- Coordinate system
- Fluxgate compass
- Gyrocompass
- Inertial navigation system
- Pelorus
- Radio direction finder
References
- ↑ Amir Aczel, The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World, ISBN:0-15-600753-3
- ↑ Admiralty manual of navigation, Chapter XXV "The Magnetic Compass (continued) the analysis and correction of the deviation", His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1914.
- ↑ Paul J. Gans, "Compass" The Medieval Technology Pages
- ↑ Frances and Joseph Gies, Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel subtitled "Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages".
- ↑ Frederic Lane, "The Economic Meaning of the Invention of the Compass", American Historical Review, vol. 68, pp. 605–617 (1963)
- ↑ Joseph Needham, Colin A. Ronan: The Shorter Science & Civilisation in China Vol 3 Chapter 1 "Magnetism and Electricity".
- ↑ Petra G. Schmidl Two Early Arabic Sources on the Magnetic Compass
- ↑ Science Friday, "The Riddle of the Compass" (interview with Amir Aczel, first broadcast on NPR on May 31, 2002).
- ↑ The Tides by Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
- ↑ Williams, J.E.D. From Sails to Satellites. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
- ↑ "Geomagnetism | U.S. Geological Survey". https://www.usgs.gov/programs/geomagnetism.
- ↑ Evening Lecture To The British Association At The Southampton Meeting on Friday, August 25, 1882 [1]. Refers to compass correction by Fourier series.
- ↑ Arrick Robots. Robotics.com Example implementation for digital solid-state compass. ARobot Digital Compass App Note
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