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Re: Observations with pocket sextant in the Baltic CROSS POST
From: Robert Eno
Date: 2006 Jul 3, 19:33 -0500
Interesting idea.
Let's say GPS was never invented, nor any other kind of external electronic
system. What would the modern sextant have looked like had it just kept on
undergoing improvements?
Whatever happened to the "Sextants of Tomorrow" as described in Bruce
Bauer's "Sextant Handbook"?
Robert
> Seriously...it might interest an engineering class to take on the project
> of
> redesigning a sextant for ultimate accuracy using modern materials and
> techniques, as a project, with no further goal. Whether that could then be
> transformed into something more....An interesting project anyway.
>
>
> >
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From: Robert Eno
Date: 2006 Jul 3, 19:33 -0500
Interesting idea.
Let's say GPS was never invented, nor any other kind of external electronic
system. What would the modern sextant have looked like had it just kept on
undergoing improvements?
Whatever happened to the "Sextants of Tomorrow" as described in Bruce
Bauer's "Sextant Handbook"?
Robert
> Seriously...it might interest an engineering class to take on the project
> of
> redesigning a sextant for ultimate accuracy using modern materials and
> techniques, as a project, with no further goal. Whether that could then be
> transformed into something more....An interesting project anyway.
>
>
> >
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