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Re: Do you know this instrument ?
From: Adrian F
Date: 2024 Nov 1, 06:24 -0700
From: Adrian F
Date: 2024 Nov 1, 06:24 -0700
I came across a paper “Notes on the Errors of Stadimeters” by Midshipman G.P. Schuyler, US Navy, published in 1909 in the Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1909/june/notes-errors-stadimeters
The errors discussed relate to the methodology by which the stadimeter was evidently used to keep station at a distance from another ship, rather than errors arising from within the instrument itself. I see that towards the end of the paper, some limited references are made to the mechanism within the instrument.
Adrian F
