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Compass

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• Scientific apparatus and instruments

• Magnetic ranges

• Gyro compass

• Magnetic needle
• Mariner's compass

• Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science: Essays and Addresses, by Simon Newcomb (Gutenberg text)

• A War Job "Thought Impossible" (Detroit: Chrysler Corporation, c1945), by Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spinning Tops (reprint of new edition, 1910), by John Perry (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Observations on Terrestrial Magnetism and on the Deviations of the Compasses of the United States Iron Clad Monadnock During Her Cruise from Philadelphia to San Francisco, in 1865 and 1866 (Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge #239; 1873), by William Harkness (page images at HathiTrust)

• International Partnerships in Large Science Projects (Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Expanding the Vision of Sensor Materials (1995), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Calibrating Hubble Space Telescope: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, November 15-17, 1993, ed. by J. Chris Blades and Samantha J. Osmer (Postscript files at stsci.edu)

• Allied Radio Catalog (selected issues, 1929-1943), by Allied Radio Corporation (partial serial archives)

• Catalogue des Instruments de Précision (in French; 1893), by Ducretet et Lejeune (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Construction and Principal Uses of Mathematical Instruments (based on the second English edition of 1758), by N. Bion, ed. by Edmund Stone, contrib. by Nicholas Rougeux (illustrated HTML with commentary at c82.net)

• Zeitschrift für Instrumentenkunde (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems III, ed. by Dennis R. Crabtree, R. J. Hanisch, and Jeannette V. Barnes (HTML in Canada)

• A Treatise on the Astrolabe, by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • HTML in Sweden
  • HTML at Michigan

• Hours With a Three-Inch Telescope (second edition; London: Longmans, Green, and co., 1887), by William Noble
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (author's second edition, in Latin; Nuremberg: J. C. Lochner, 1702), by Johann Zahn
  • page images in Spain
  • multiple formats at Google

• Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope (c1939), by Victor Appleton, illust. by James Gary (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A 65-Meter Telescope for Millimeter Wavelengths (1972), by John Wilson Findlay and Sebastian von Hoerner (PDF files at Harvard)

• The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea (London: J. Van Voorst, 1854), by Philip Henry Gosse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea (second edition; London: J. Van Voorst, 1856), by Philip Henry Gosse
  • multiple formats at archive.org; one page from preface missing
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Family Aquarium: or, Aqua Vivarium (New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, c1858), by Henry D. Butler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ocean Gardens: The History of the Marine Aquarium, and the Best Methods Now Adopted for its Establishment and Preservation (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1857), by Henry Noel Humphreys (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life in Ponds and Streams (new impression; London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906), by William S. Furneaux (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Fumigation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020), by Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris (PDF files at MIT Press)

• Manual on Solar Distillation of Saline Water (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Distributed by National Technical Information Service, 1970), by S. G. Talbert, J. A. Eibling, George O. G. Löf, Chung-Ming Wong, and Everett N. Sieder (page images at HathiTrust)

• High-Frequency Magnetic Materials: Their Characteristics and Principal Applications (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, c1960), by W. J. Polydoroff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theory and Application of Ferrites (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960), by Ronald F. Soohoo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Audio Control Handbook for Radio and Television Broadcasting (New York: Hastings House, c1956), by Robert S. Oringel (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Electronic Travel Aids: New Directions for Research, by National Research Council Committee on Vision (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics (c2011), by Jennifer Gabrys (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Antennas (New York: J. F. Rider, c1957), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Advanced Antenna Theory (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1952), by S. A. Schelkunoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Methods, Formulas, and Tables for the Calculation of Antenna Capacity (Washington: GPO, 1928), by Frederick W. Grover (page images at HathiTrust)

• A-M Detectors (New York: J. F. Rider, c1955), ed. by Alexander Schure (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)
• Metallic Recitifers and Crystal Diodes (New York: J. F. Rider, c. 1958), by Theodore Conti (PDF at worldradiohistory.com)

• Control System Components (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1958), by John E. Gibson and Franz B. Tuteur (page images at HathiTrust)

• Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics (c2011), by Jennifer Gabrys (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Arming the Torturers: Electro-Shock Torture and the Spread of Stun Technology (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (New York: Reinhold; London: Chapman and Hall, c1960), ed. by Irving B. Cadoff and Edward Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Flexural Bar Transducer (Newport, RI: Naval Underwater Systems Center, ca. 1986), by Ralph Storrer Woollett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Workmanship and Design Practices for Electronic Equipment (second revision, 1962), by United States Bureau of Naval Weapons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Instrumentation (first edition; Chicago: American Technical Society, c1962), by Franklyn W. Kirk and Nicholas R. Rimboi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standard Instrumentation Questions and Answers, for Production-Processes Control (2 volumes; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1962), by Stephen Michael Elonka and Alonzo Ritter Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Optical Tooling for Precise Manufacture and Alignment (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1962), by Philip Kissam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Expanding the Vision of Sensor Materials (1995), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century, by National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Description of the Instruments and Process Used in the Photographic Self-Registration of the Magnetical and Meteorological Instruments, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (extracted from the introduction to the Greenwich Magnetical and Meteorological Observations, 1847; London: Printed by Palmer and Clayton, and sold by J. Murray, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation, ed. by E. M. Horsburgh (page images at Cornell)

• Safe, Comfortable, Attractive, and Easy to Use: Improving the Usability of Home Medical Devices (1996), by National Research Council Committee on Human Factors (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Standard Instrumentation Questions and Answers, for Production-Processes Control (2 volumes; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1962), by Stephen Michael Elonka and Alonzo Ritter Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrial Instrumentation (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1950), by Donald P. Eckman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Field Work and Instruments (London and New York: Whittaker and Co., 1900), by Arthur Thomas Walmisley
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

More items available under broader and related terms at left.