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Frank,

> I've been meaning to read that book by Mackenzie for years.
> the book here: http://books.google.com/

Thanks. Our library has it. Yesterday, I read his paper.
He is a sociologist, and his main interest is sociology of research,
but few interesting technical details and/or references on technical
details can be found there. For example I learned something new about
Cel Nav of the missiles themselves. Will read more and then report
to tis list.
I am not sure whether Cel Nav of the missiles is within the scope of the
list or not:-)

> if I remember correctly from many lunations ago,
> you bought a copy of the Institute of Navigation CD

You have a very good memory:-)
But I remember this as well, and will surely find this disc.

> inertial system's ability to provide
> a highly accurate vertical. I
> t's the ultimate "bubble".

Yes, of course! This did not come to my mind when I was thinking
on how could this periscope work. So this periscope is different from
those used in WW II (And we are not likely to see this sextant on e-bay:-)

> Publications in this area were "totally prohibited"."
> Yeah, I can imagine so!

BTW, on the maps of my childhood time (1960-s) the whole sector from
Longitude 30E towards E, all the way to 170W,
from the shore to the North pole,
was marked on the Soviet maps as
"Polar possessions of the USSR". I suppose this was not recognized
by other contries, and we knew that Nautilus traveled somewhere there...
I suppose USSR did not insist on this claim in the later years.

> started visiting museum submarines.
> There are quite a few scattered about.

There is one nuclear Soviet one near London...
I also visited at various times many of them, but only of WWII period.

Alex.

   

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