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Dear George,

Thank you for your very interesting message.
While waiting for the photocopy of Shufeldt
paper, I can also speculate on how would I design
a dipmeter:-)
I am thinking of a conversion of the usual
sextant, by adding at most one mirror
(or maybe no additional mirrors at all).

I may even experiment sometimes with converning
a cardboard sextant:-)

> >Russian devices. The word "naklonomer" has literal translation
> >"dipmeter".

Would the "dipmeter" be the official name of such device?
I hope to find one on e-bay sometimes:-)

> clear view behind him. A pair of mirrors, rigidly mounted, will do the same
> job, and that's what I've used for my own version of the Blish dipmeter,
> because it's lighter and cheaper than a glass prism. It fits to my plastic
> sextant.

> The requirement for high precision navigation, thus calling for the
> dipmeter, was in the most demanding application of astro-navigation, the
> laying (and subsequent re-finding) of submarine cables.

I can think of some other applications as well.
Like marking a place of a shipwreck, for example.
Or of a lost hydrogen bomb:-)

Alex.

   

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