Finding the error of the marine compass on board ship. By B.F. Greene ... Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department

The Smithsonian catalogs Finding the error of the marine compass on board ship. By B.F. Greene ... Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department as books in its Compass records.

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Associated with Greene, Benjamin Franklin 1817-1895. Dated 1875. Explore the object and its collection context.

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The Smithsonian lists the object under Compass and dates it 1875.

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Smithsonian InstitutionFinding the error of the marine compass on board ship. By B.F. Greene ... Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department

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