Multimedia Gallery
- Topic: Navigating At Sea
Captain Charles Wilkes led the U.S. Exploring Expedition, which sailed around the world between 1838 and 1842.
This chart showing Nova Scotia to Cape Cod, based on Samuel de Champlain’s observations, was published in 1607.
This chart of the Atlantic Ocean was created in 1633.
This chart, showing the coast of western Florida’s Panhandle, was created in 1700.
This Dutch mathematician patented the first working pendulum clock in 1656 and later devised a watch regulator called a balance spring. These inventions changed timekeeping forever.
This chronometer movement was made by John Roger Arnold about 1825.
This chronometer movement was made by Thomas Earnshaw, about 1798.
Box chronometer, after Thomas Mudge, No. 14 made by Howells, Barraud, and Jamison, 1802.
Compass rose on a chart of the Mediterranean, 1492.
Malay Dagger and Sheath, Indonesia