| John Thomas Towson - 1863 - 132 páginas
...STREET, TOWER HILL. 1863. Price Three Shillings. 6167. +. .._.1, PRACTICAL INFORMATION ON THE DEVIATION OF THE COMPASS; FOR THE USE OF MASTERS AND MATES OF IRON SHIPS, Deviation, Variation, and Local Attraction. 1. " Deviation of the compass " is the term used exclusively... | |
| Royal Institution of Naval Architects - 1866 - 334 páginas
...kingdom, were informed that the Board of Trade had published Practical Information on the Deviation oftIte Compass, for the Use of Masters and Mates of Iron Ships, by John Thomas Towson, FRGS, &c. &c. They were also requested to instruct their examiners to explain to... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - 770 páginas
...published at the expense of the Board, under the title of " Practical Information on the Deviation of the Compass ; for the use of Masters and Mates of Iron Ships." WE are glad to learn that Prof. MacOwan, late of Gill College, Somerset East, has accepted the post... | |
| William Henry Rosser - 1870 - 404 páginas
...for the use of navigators. By George Parson 1/6 475. COMPASS (PRACTICAL INFORMATION on the DEVIATION of THE COMPASS). For the use of Masters and Mates of Iron Ships. By John Thomas Towson, FRGS 4,'476. COMPASS (ADMIRALTY MANUAL on the_DEVIATION of the 477. 47?a. COMPASS).... | |
| William Culley Bergen - 1872 - 688 páginas
...magnetic variation, horizontal intensity, and dip ; Towson's " Practical Information on the Deviation of the Compass, for the use of Masters and Mates of Iron Ships ;" the Reports of the Liverpool Compass Committee ; and other works connected with the magnetism of... | |
| P E. Le Couteur - 1874 - 58 páginas
...magnetic variation, horizontal intensity, and dip ; Towson's " Practical Information on the deviation of the compass, for the use of Masters and Mates of Iron Ships;" the Reports of the Liverpool Compass Committee ; and other works connected with the magnetism of iron... | |
| 1877 - 626 páginas
...in a ship by" FJ Evans and Archibald Smith, London : Potter, 1863. 4s. 6d. 8vo, pp. 166, plates." " First and Second Reports of Liverpool Compass Committee....Royal in Phil. Trans. 1839. p. 167-213, 1856. Part I., p. 53-99. Athanaseum Ap.,1865." " Paper by Mr. Evans, RN, in Phil. Trans. 1860. Part II., p. 337-378,... | |
| Radcliffe Library (University of Oxford) - 1877 - 580 páginas
...history and physiology. 7 Pl. 8vo. London, 1799. TOWSON, John T. Practical information on the deviation of the compass ; for the use of masters and mates of iron ships. 8vo. London, 1863. TOYNREE, Henry. Report to the Committee of the Meteorological Office, on the meteorology... | |
| Squire Thornton Stratford Lecky - 1881 - 682 páginas
...exceed 23°. The table referred to is numbered VII. in Towson's " Practical Information on the Deviation of the Compass, for the use of masters and mates of iron ships." It will be unnecessary here to give Mr. Towson's rules, &&, as reference to his admirable book will... | |
| Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1881 - 864 páginas
...compass deviation, which was published under the title of ' Practical Information on the Deviation of the Compass, for the use of Masters and Mates of Iron Ships.' General ET Dalton, CSI— The death is announced of Major-General Edward Tuite Dalton, CSI, who entered... | |
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