| Reference number | AP/27/16/1 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Unpublished manuscript, 'An account of a protracting pocket sextant' by Colonel Bainbridge |
| Creator | Bainbridge (fl 1845) |
| Date | 19 May 1845 |
| Description | Bainbridge describes an invention designed to facilitate and expedite the making of sketches and surveys for military purposes on actual service. By serving at once as a sextant and protractor, as soon as an angle is taken, the invention may at once be laid down on paper by employing its two legs as rulers.
Followed by a covering letter and two pages of figures of the protracting pocket sextant.
Subject: Scientific apparatus and instruments
Communicated by P M [Peter Mark] Roget.
Written by Bainbridge in Ashbourne, Derbyshire [England].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'An account of a protracting pocket sextant'. |
| Extent | 3p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Physical description | Ink on paper |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0057 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA6616 | Roget; Peter Mark (1779 - 1869); physician and philologist | 1779 - 1869 |