Article ID: CBB000950332

Standard Needles (2008)

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Description Discusses an instrument used to check the alignment of compass needles in New South Wales.


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Authors & Contributors
Weston, Kathryn M.
Robson, Charmaine
Xin Bai
Draper, Brian
Hampton, Stephen
Graham, Hamish
Journals
Health and History
Historical Records of Australian Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise
Perspectives on Science
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Publishers
Springer
Professional Surveyors Publishing Co.
Octavo Corp
Johns Hopkins University Press
Harcourt
Allen & Unwin
Concepts
Compasses
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Institutionalization
Colonialism
Prisons
Health care
People
Galilei, Galileo
King, James
Mascheroni, Lorenzo
Liebig, Justus von
Lewin, John William
Hilbert, David
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Ancient
20th century
Places
New South Wales (Australia)
Australia
Great Britain
Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
Sydney (Australia)
Tasmania (Australia)
Institutions
National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)
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