Unpublished paper, 'An account of a protracting pocket sextant' by Colonel Bainbridge
Reference number: AP/27/16
Date: 19 May 1845
Description
Bainbridge describes an invention designed to facilitate and expedite the making of sketches and surveys for military purposes on actual service. By serving at once as a sextant and protractor, as soon as an angle is taken, the invention may at once be laid down on paper by employing its two legs as rulers.
Followed by a covering letter and two pages of figures of the protracting pocket sextant.
Subject: Scientific apparatus and instruments
Communicated by P M [Peter Mark] Roget.
Written by Bainbridge in Ashbourne, Derbyshire [England].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of a protracting pocket sextant'.
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- AP/27/16
- Earliest possible date
- 19 May 1845
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- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 7 pages
- Format
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Unpublished paper, 'An account of a protracting pocket sextant' by Colonel Bainbridge, 19 May 1845, AP/27/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_27_16/unpublished-paper-an-account-of-a-protracting-pocket-sextant-by-colonel-bainbridge, accessed on 14 November 2024
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An account of a protracting pocket sextant External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 31st December 1851
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0057
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Referee's report by William Henry Smyth, on a paper 'An account of a protracting pocket sextant' by E Bainbridge
Creator: William Henry Smyth Reference number: RR/1/6
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Archived papers: volume 27, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1841-1845
1841-1845 Reference number: AP/27
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