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Significados de mariner's compass em inglês

Compass in the form of a card that rotates so that 0 degrees or North points to magnetic north.

Uso de mariner's compass em inglês
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Almost instantaneously we detected that the mariner's compass had vanished with him.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition
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His mariner's compass and sounding machine have done good service to seamen.
The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 30, June 1893 / An Illustrat...
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In common with other ancients they knew the principle of the mariner's compass.
The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest
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The rose is the face or card of the mariner's compass.
Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03
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The mariner's compass, perhaps derived from the Arabs, also came into general use.
Early European History
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Waldeman, King of Sweden, introduces the mariner's compass among the navigators of the Baltic.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 / (From Barbaro...
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Tom, I shall show you how we steer by means of the mariner's compass.
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
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What would our civilization have been if the mariner's compass had never been known?
Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science
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Like a mariner's compass, we are restless until we find repose in this one direction.
The Practice and Science of Drawing
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The improved mariner's compass enabled Columbus to find the New world; gunpowder made possible its conquest.
The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest
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This was the case with the mariner's compass.
Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
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These instruments are something like the mariner's compass, with the sensitiveness enormously increased by galvanic currents.
A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future
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In like manner the introduction of the mariner's compass was followed by imposing material and moral effects.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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Cub produced the chart and a hand-book diagram of a mariner's compass about three inches in diameter.
The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands; Or, The Yankee-Canadian ...
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They had no real telescopes or microscopes, no mariner's compass or chronometer, and no very delicate balances.
Early European History
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No man knows who invented the mariner's compass, or who first hollowed out a canoe from a log.
Men of Invention and Industry