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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
139: ... after arriving in Portugal, learned cutting-edge navigational and trading skills from the Portuguese, was commi... - Map (10223 bytes)
3: ...ap''' is a simplified depiction of a [[space]], a navigational aid which highlights relations between objects wi...
9: ... of the Earth to the body of Christ. By contrast, navigational (or "Portolan") charts of the Mediterranean from ...
13: ...most widely used maps today, and form a subset of navigational maps, which also include aeronautical and [[Nauti...
37: Most commercial navigational maps, such as road maps and town plans, sacrifice... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
59: ...enterpiece of his platform was the undertaking of navigational improvements on the Sangamon in the hopes of attr... - Morse code (33777 bytes)
2: ...mployed for a few specialized purposes, including navigational [[radio beacon]]s, and by [[Continuous wave|CW]] ... - Compass (8275 bytes)
3: A '''compass''' (or '''mariner's compass''') is a navigational instrument for finding directions. It consists of...
7: ==History of the navigational compass==
19: [[image:Compass thumbnail.jpg|333px|thumb|Navigational [[sailor|mariner]]'s compass]]
32: ==Modern navigational compasses==
34: Modern navigational compasses hold a magnetized needle inside a fluid... - Airline (29546 bytes)
149: ...en English (so that pilots do not mistakenly make navigational decisions based on instructions issued to a diffe... - Astrolabe (4446 bytes)
- Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
17: ...lacing the emphasis of their aviation research on navigational control rather than simply lift and propulsion wh... - William Dampier (7308 bytes)
- Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
35: Cook never produced detailed original navigational records to substantiate his claim to have reached...
37: ...ttently claimed he had kept copies of his sextant navigational data and in 1911 published some which have the in... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
71: ...] measurements during his first voyage due to his navigational skills, the help of an astronomer [[Charles Green... - Sense (11343 bytes)
51: ... in many [[avian|avians]] (it is essential to the navigational abilities of migratory birds) it is not a well un... - Navigation (15650 bytes)
37: ... [[Nautical chart]]s were developed to record new navigational and pilotage information for use by other navigat...
53: ... tables for celestial bodies were created so that navigational activities could take place anytime during the da...
55: ...e the Sun, Moon, visible [[planet]]s or any of 57 navigational stars at any time of day or night. From a single ... - Curium (8593 bytes)
181: ...]] per gram. It is used in [[pacemaker]]s, remote navigational buoys, and in [[outer space|space]] missions. - Strontium (11493 bytes)
204: ...r use in [[spacecraft]], remote weather stations, navigational buoys, etc, where a lightweight, long-lived, nucl... - 18th century new (49640 bytes)
539: * c. [[1730]]: The [[octant]] navigational tool was developed by [[John Hadley]] in England,... - Nautical chart (2955 bytes)
1: ...features of the seabed, details of the coastline, navigational hazards, locations of natural and man-made aids t... - Radar (16746 bytes)
- Gliding (16947 bytes)
7: ...local weather conditions, their flying skills and navigational abilities. There are also glider [[aerobatic|aer... - Flight simulator (9712 bytes)
29: ..., lightning, oncoming aircraft, slippery runways, navigational system failures and countless other problems whic...
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