| RefNo | AP/27/16 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished paper, 'An account of a protracting pocket sextant' by Colonel Bainbridge |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 | 7p |
| Format | Drawing |
| Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1843.0057 |
| RelatedRecord | RR/1/6 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6616 | Roget; Peter Mark (1779 - 1869); physician and philologist | 1779 - 1869 |