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Re: Douglas-Appleyard Arcless Sextant - Help
From: David Pike
Date: 2019 Mar 31, 13:07 -0700
From: David Pike
Date: 2019 Mar 31, 13:07 -0700
John
I’m assuming that you’ve Googled this and that you got your photo from the Douglas Family Website, but in case you missed them these are the links I found:
http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/ships/sextant.htm
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30000006
https://bid.tennants.co.uk/m/lot-details/index/catalog/621/lot/333365
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930091264.pdf
I couldn't seem to find anything on UK patents that didn't involve sending money
DaveP
