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Captain Charles Wilkes led the U.S. Exploring Expedition, which sailed around the world between 1838 and 1842.
Led the Pan Am Airlines navigation service
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.
Charts like this were used by Navy pilots throughout the Pacific.
Charts like this were used by Navy pilots throughout the Pacific.
Charts like this were used by Navy pilots throughout the Pacific.
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.
