Multimedia Gallery
- Media Type: Artifact
This computer, located in the Alabama’s navigation center, processed the data derived from the gyroscopes and accelerometers.
Chronometers like this one by Arnold & Dent were used on the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842).
Chronometers like this one by Charles Frodsham were used on the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842).
Chronometers like this one by Molyneaux & Son were used on the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842).
Chronometers like this one by Parkinson & Frodsham were used on the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842).
Tradition says this was the first American-made marine timekeeper taken to sea.
Mariner 10 used the gravity of Venus to propel itself to Mercury.
A backup Mariner spacecraft hangs in the National Air and Space Museum’s Milestones of Flight gallery.
A mariner’s astrolabe measures the angle of the Sun or a star above the horizontal line of reference.
The Mark 3 Plotting Board was used in single-seat aircraft flying in the Pacific.
