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2. Navigational instrument - Wikipedia

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   Marine chronometer used to determine time at the prime meridian with great precision which is necessary when reducing sights in celestial navigation. Nocturnal used to determine apparent local time by viewing the Polaris and its surrounding stars. Ring dial or astronomical ring used to measure the height of a celestial body above the horizon ...

3. Marine chronometer - Wikipedia

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   A marine chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship and employed in the determination of the ship's position by celestial navigation. It is used to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and the time at the current location found from observations of celestial bodies.

4. Comet 7-cylinder radial engines - Wikipedia

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   Oil pumps and magnetos are driven by the camshaft drives as well as the Heywood air starter and tachometer. The two-piece crankshaft, with counter-weights, is carefully forged from heat-treated chrome-vanadium alloy steel and drilled for lightness and lubricating oil flow.

5. Ford Sierra - Wikipedia

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   The Ford Sierra is a mid-size/ large family car manufactured and marketed by Ford of Europe from 1982–1993. It was designed by Uwe Bahnsen, Robert Lutz and Patrick Le Quément, and was noted for its aerodynamic styling. It has a drag coefficient of 0.34, a significant improvement over its predecessors.

6. VDO (company) - Wikipedia

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   VDO was founded by Adolf Schindling and the result of a merger between DEUTA (Deutsche Tachometer-Werke GmbH, English: German Speedometer Works, Ltd.) and OTA Apparate GmbH (Offenbacher Tachometer-Werke GmbH, English: (City of) Offenbach Speedometer Works, Ltd.) in Frankfurt am Main in 1929. [2]

7. What’s Being Done to Save the Hawaiian Monk Seal (and What ...

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   If the seal is in a roped-off area, abide by the rules and stay behind the rope. Finally, call the NOAA Fisheries Marine Wildlife Hotline at (866) 755-6622 to report the sighting.

8. Tachymeter (watch) - Wikipedia

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   Tachymeter scale on a Citizen watch bezel. A tachymeter (pronounced / t æ ˈ k ɪ m ə t ər /) is a scale sometimes inscribed around the rim of an analog watch with a chronograph.It can be used to conveniently compute the frequency in inverse-hours of an event of a known second-defined period, such as speed (distance over hours) based on travel time (distance over speed), or measure distance ...

9. Fentanyl found inside dolphins in Gulf of Mexico: ‘We think ...

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   Several bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico were found to have traces of fentanyl in their system, shocking scientists and bringing in a new set of questions in the ongoing drug epidemic.