| RefNo | AP/37/20 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Unpublished letter, regarding the decimal compass card from James Share to W H [William Henry] Smyth |
| Creator | Share; James Masters (1822-1895) |
| Date | 18 February 1855 |
| Description | Share describes his invention, the decimal compass card, 'an attempt to innovate on an old custom', and suggests the substitution of a compass card containing 36 points of ten degrees each, with every degree being one-tenth of a point.
Includes two pages of illustrations and a print advertisement for the decimal compass card.
Subject: Navigation / Marine engineering
Received 23 April 1855. Communicated by Smyth.
Written by Share in Corfu [Greece].
Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 7 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a decimal compass card'. |
| Extent | 7p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Drawing |
| Printed |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1854.0092 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5062 | Smyth; William Henry (1788 - 1865) | 1788 - 1865 |