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The Bris sextant / ˈ b r iː s /, or Bris Mini-Sextant, is not a sextant proper, but is a small angle-measuring device that can be used for navigation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Bris is, however, a true reflecting instrument which derives its high accuracy from the same principle of double reflection which is fundamental to the octant, the true sextant ...
C. Plath GmbH is nowadays known as Plath Corporation GmbH, and is the firm that evolved into the Plath Group. Its first 14 staff originally consisted of C. Plath KG's radio division, and a Kiel-based signalling firm. [7] Maximilian Wächtler owned ten per cent of C. Plath GmbH; C. Plath KG and Atlas Elektronik (later incorporated into Fried.
International Motors, LLC (formerly Navistar International Corporation) is an American holding company created in 1986. The successor to the International Harvester manufacturing company, International produces trucks and diesel engines under its own brand; [3] the company produces buses under the IC Bus name.
In 2005, Navistar acquired MWM International Motores, a Brazilian diesel engine manufacturer formerly associated with the German manufacturer of the same name, Motoren Werke Mannheim AG (MWM). [17] Now called "MWM International Ind. de Motores da America do Sul Ltda.", it has two manufacturing plants: one in São Paulo , Brazil and another in ...
The MXT-MVA was Navistar's entry in the 2008 selection competition for the US Army's MRAP All Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) program, but the army chose to procure the Oshkosh M-ATV instead. In 2009 a modified variant of the MXT-MVA was ordered for service with the British Army. This variant was known as the Husky in British military service.
C. Plath sold many gyrocompasses to the Weems’ School for Navigation in Annapolis, MD, and soon the founders of each organization formed an alliance and became Weems & Plath. [9] The 1889 Dumoulin-Krebs gyroscope. Before the success of the gyrocompass, several attempts had been made in Europe to use a gyroscope instead.
A popular form of writing nowadays is one that involves reexamining the lives of people, often members of marginalized groups, who have otherwise been flattened or short-changed by history.
A diagram of a typical nautical sextant, a tool used in celestial navigation to measure the angle between two objects viewed by means of its optical sight. Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the practice of position fixing using stars and other celestial bodies that enables a navigator to accurately determine their actual current physical position in space or on the ...