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• Nautical paraphernalia
• Navigation -- Equipment and supplies

• Nautical instruments -- Early works to 1800
• Nautical instruments -- Exhibitions
• Nautical instruments -- History
• Nautical instruments -- Maintenance and repair
• Nautical instruments -- Simulation methods
• Nautical instruments -- Standards
• Automatic pilot (Ships)
• Inertial navigation systems
• Logs (Nautical instruments)
• Quadrants (Astronomical instruments)
• Sextant

• Instruments, Marine
• Instruments, Nautical
• Marine instruments

• Tratado de la Cosmographia, y Naútica (in Spanish; Cadiz: Imprenta Real, ca. 1745), by Pedro Manuel Cedillo
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• Hamburgische festschrift zur erinnerung an die entdeckung Amerika's. (L. Friederichsen & co., 1892), by Hamburg. Komité für die Amerika-feier. Wissenschaftlicher Ausschuss, Ludwig Friederichsen, Hermann Albert Schumacher, Ernst Baasch, Heinrich Michow, Eugen Gelcich, Sophus Ruge, and Georg Balthasar von Neumayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1771 et 1772 (Imprimérie royale, 1778), by Jean René-Antoine Verdun de la Crenne, Alexandre Guy Pingré, and Jean-Charles de Borda (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of some experiments upon a machine for measuring the way of a ship at sea. ([London], 1754), by John Smeaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Piloting and maneuvering of ships (McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1943), by Lyman M. Kells, James R. Bland, and Willis F. Kern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nautik. Kurzer abriss des täglich an bord von handelsschiffen angewandten teils der schiffartskunde (G.J. Göschen, 1898), by Franz Schulze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nautik; kurzer abriss des täglich an bord von handelsschiffen angewandten teils des schiffahrtskunde (G.J. Göschen, 1911), by Franz Schulze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Instrumentman 3 & 2. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1951), by United States Bureau of Naval Personnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• História da sciência náutica portuguesa; instrumentos náuticos da época dos descobrimentos marítimos; sua importancia histórica. (Imprensa da Universidade, 1927), by Antônio Barbosa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description et usage du cercle de réflexion avec différentes méthodes pour calculer les observations nautiques ... (F. Didot, 1810), by Jean Charles de Borda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lunar tables : (Richards & Co., 1834), by Janet Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Méthode générale pour obtenir le résultat moyen d'une série d'observations astronomiques faites avec le cercle répétitieur de borda (Bachelier, 1823), by L. Puissant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nautik; kurzer abriss des täglich an bord von handelschiffen angewandten teils der schiffahrtskunde (G. J. Göschen, 1904), by Franz Schulze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wave height indicator literature search and vendor data suvey : technical memorandum (National Maritime Research Center, 1974), by Henry Carleton and National Maritime Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wave height indicators : technical report (National Maritime Research Center, 1974), by Henry Carleton and National Maritime Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Attrezzatura, manovra delle navi e segnalazioni marittime ... con 15 tavole lit. e 232 incisioni nel testo. (U. Hoepli, 1894), by Fortunato Imperato and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nautik (B. G. Teubner, 1909), by Johannes Freidrich Karl Möller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Idea de un nuevo aparato para indicar constantamente la velocidad de marcha de un buque (Madrid, 1909), by Francisco de Paula Rojas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die instrumente und die wissenschaftlichen hülfsmittel der nautik zur zeit der grossen länder-entdeckung. ([Hamburg?, 1892), by Eugen Gelcich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der nautischen Instrumente. Hydrographisches Amt des Reichs-Marine-Amts. (E.S. Mittler und Sohn, 1890), by Germany. Kriegsmarine. Oberkommando. Nautische Abteilung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel des instruments nautiques. (Imp. nationale, 1899), by É. Guyou and France. Service hydrographique de la marine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The navisphere, patented in England, France, Germany, America, &c. (Heath & co., 1881), by Selwyn S. Sugden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uitgegeven door de Afdeeling Ned.-Indi ̈der Vereeninging van Nederlandsche Gezagvoerders en Stuurlieden ter Koopvaardij (Ruygrok & Co., 1913), by S. Mars, Vereeniging van Nederlandsche Gezagvoerders en Stuurlieden ter Koopvaardij, and Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rudder angle indicator ... (Sperry Gyroscope Co., 1946), by inc Sperry Gyroscope Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physical laws underlying the scale of a sounding tube (Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1920., 1920), by Walter D. Lambert and U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theorie en beschrijving der thans bij de nederlandsche marine in gebruik zijnde zeevaartkundige werktuigen (E.J. Brill, 1880), by Pieter Jan Kaiser and Netherlands. Ministerie van Marine (page images at HathiTrust)

• The mariner's compass rectified : containing tables, shewing the true hour of the day, the sun being upon any point of the compass ; with the true time of the rising and setting of the sun and stars, and the points of the compass upon which they rise and set ... With the description and use of those instruments most in use in the art of navigation. Also a table of the latitudes and longitudes of places (Printed for W. and J. Mount, and T. Page, 1763), by Andrew Wakely, William Mountaine, and James Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The navigators supply : conteining many things of principall importance belonging to navigation, with the description and vse of diuerse instruments ... (By G. Bishop, R. Newberry and R. Barker, 1597), by William Barlow (page images at HathiTrust)

• Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark (electronic edition), by Guy Meriwether Benson (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• Charting the atlantic seaboard from Greenland to the Gulf : an exhibition of maps, charts and nautical instruments ([Lyman Allyn Museum], 1954), by Lyman Allyn Museum (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Hilfsmittel der Schiffahrtskunde zur Zeit der grossen Länderentdeckungen; ein historisch-nautisches Bild. (Verlag des Verfassers; Druck von C. Gerold's Sohn, 1879), by Ernst Mayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old-Time Nautical Instruments, by John Robinson (Gutenberg ebook)

• Application of precision navigator system in Sandy Hook Channel under conditions of degraded aids-to-navigation, simulation experiment (National Maritime Research Center, 1985), by K. Williams and National Maritime Research Center. Computer Aided Operations Research Facility (page images at HathiTrust)

• Specifications for marine sextants. (Govt. Print. Off., 1921), by United States. National Bureau of Standards (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sperry gyro-compass and navigation equipment. Comprising history of the art, with latest developments, explanation of the underlying principles, essential elements and their functions, structural details, mathematical treatise, performance under service conditions, etc. (Sperry Gyroscope Company, 1912), by inc Sperry Gyroscope Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improvement of ship steering control for merchant ships - Phase II : technical report (National Maritime Research Center, 1978), by R. E. Reid and National Maritime Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Radio/optical/strapdown inertial guidance study for advanced kick-stage applications. Volume I, Summary. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1969), by TRW Inc and Electronics Research Center (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• NASA TN D-4110 (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1967), by Arthur H. Lipton and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flight results from a study of aided inertial navigation applied to landing operations (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1973), by Leonard A. McGee, Robert B. Merrick, Thomas M. Carson, Daniel H. Hegarty, Gerald L. Smith, United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Analytical Mechanics Associates, and Ames Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earth environmental noise fields (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, United States Air Force, 1970., 1970), by F. A. Crowley, H. A. Ossing, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamental geokinetic considerations in multiple position gyrocompassing (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1972., 1972), by Thomas S. Rhoades and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earth motions and their effects on inertial instrument performance (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1972., 1972), by Robert A. Gray and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A motion study of the Frank J. Seiler Research Laboratory guidance test facility (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1973., 1973), by Francis A. Crowley, Henry A. Ossing, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gradiometer Applications and Status of Sensor Development (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1971., 1971), by David Anthony and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Azimuth monitoring experiment status report (Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts : Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1982., 1982), by Robert L. Iliff, Theodore E. Wirtanen, Roger W. Sands, and U.S. Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (page images at HathiTrust)

• Development and tests of a pitometer (1909), by Harold Hoyt Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)

• Il quadrante d'Israele di Jacob ben Machir ben Tibbon (Profacio) ... (Libreria internazionale, 1922), by Giuseppe Boffito, Camillo Melzi d'Eril, and Luigi Schiaparelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'astrolabe-quadrant du Musée des antiquités de Rouen. Recherches sur les connaissances mathématiques, astronomiques et nautiques au moyen age (G. Thomas, 1910), by Albert Anthiaume and Jules Sottas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Usus quadrantis astronomici geometrici, das ist: Beschreibung des gebrauchs eines astronomischē und geometrischen quadranten ... (bey Paulus Fürsten kunsthändlern, 1668), by Eberhard Welper (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'vso del la sqvadra mobile, con la qvale per teorica, & pratica si misura geometricamente ogni distanza, altezza, e profondità; simpara à perticare, liuellare, & pigliare in disegno le città, paesi, & prouincie : il tutto con le sue dimostrationi intagliate in rame (Appresso Pierro Bertelli, 1615), by Ottavio Fabri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions at large for the use of Hadley's quadrant: wherein are contained the principles on which that most ingeniously contrived, and useful instrument is constructed: together with a description and use of Verniers (erroneously called) Nonius's divisions. (Printed for J. Hardy and sons, 1766) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise on the accurate marking of quadrants : manuscript, [19th century?]. (in the 19th century), by ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Ibn Ḥasan and Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise on the description and use of the sine quadrant : manuscript, [19th century?]. (in the 19th century), by Max Meyerhof (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'uso della squadra mobile, con la quale per teorica, e pratica si misura geometricamente ogni distanza, altezza, e profondità : s'impara a perticare, livellare, e pigliar in disegno città, paesi, e provincie, il tutto con le sue dimostrazioni, e figure in rame (Nella stamparia vescovile Paroniana, 1753), by Ottavio Fabri and Giovanni Vettori (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'vso della sqvadra mobile ... con la qvale per teorica et per pratica si misvra geometricamente ogni distanza, altezza, e profondità; s'impara à perticare liuellare, et pigliare in dissegno le città, paesi, et prouincie. Il tvtto con se sue dimostrationi intagliate in rame. (Per i Gatella, 1673), by Ottavio Fabri (page images at HathiTrust)

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