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- Navigation Methods: Celestial Navigation
Weems developed this simple but effective plotter for aeronautical charts in 1935.
Charles Lindbergh used this celestial navigation equipment while under instruction by P. V. H. Weems in May 1928.
Marine chronometers are key-wound, spring-driven timekeepers that are more precise than most others mainly because of several special features.
Painting of William Cranch Bond
The U.S. Exploring Expedition included a formidable group of botanists, naturalists, artists, taxidermists, and other scientists.
Wiley Post extensively modified the Winnie Mae for his 1931 around-the-world flight with Harold Gatty.
Wolves, Oregon Territory (Lupas gigas, Lupus occidentalis)
“Sir Cloudisly Shovel [sic] in the Association with the Eagle, Rumney and the Firebrand, Lost on the Rocks of Scilly, October 22, 1707,” artist unknown, 18th century.