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1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Geography, Technology and Instruments of Exploration; Chapter 1 Equipping Expeditionary Astronomers: Nevil Maskelyne and the Development of 'Precision Exploration'; Chapter 2 Instrumenting Order: Longitude, Seamen and Astronomers, 1770-1805; Chapter 3 North by Northwest? Experimental Instruments and Instruments of Experiment; Chapter 4 Weather Instruments all at Sea: Meteorology and the Royal Navy in the Nineteenth Century |
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Chapter 5 Objects of Exploration: Expanding the Horizons of Maritime HistoryChapter 6 Instruments of Exploration in National Museums Scotland; Chapter 7 'Instruments in the Hands of Others': The Life and Liveliness of Instruments of British Geographical Exploration, c.1860-c.1930; Chapter 8 Seismic Instruments, Geographical Perspectives; Chapter 9 Aerial Photography in Geography and Exploration; Chapter 10 Uncovering Camouflage: The Technology of Location and the Craft of Erasure; Chapter 11 Instruments of Science and War: Frank Malina and the Object of Rocketry |
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Chapter 12 UK Radar (Dis)Integration in the 1960s: Linesman/Mediator Radar Development and the Calculus of Nuclear DeterrenceIndex |
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Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Withers, Charles W. J
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| ISBN |
9781317128823 |
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1317128826 |
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