Multimedia Gallery
- Topic: Navigation Tools
Computer and display screen for the Magellan PathMaster Navigation Information System.
This computer, located in the Alabama’s navigation center, processed the data derived from the gyroscopes and accelerometers.
Tradition says this was the first American-made marine timekeeper taken to sea.
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.
This compact projector used film strips to overlay star curves onto special plotting charts to determine lines of position.
The Mark IIB Pelorus drift sight was lighter than most drift sights, but required more work to use.
It was lighter than most drift sights, but required more work to use.
Widely used by navigators in the Navy during World War II and the early Cold War.