Bubble Sextant
name: label: user
content: Weems, Philip Van Horn
notes: label: Description
content: Edwin A. Link, Jr. presented this bubble sextant, in a beautiful alligator case, to P. V. H. Weems. It is a standard A-12 with an attachment that enables the user to view the real horizon. Link applied for a patent on this feature in 1943.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Link Bubble Sextant (Octant) Model A-12 Handbook: Description, Operation, Use, Adjustment</i> (Binghamton, N.Y.: Link Aviation Devices, Inc., 1943).
label: Description
content: Edwin A. Link, Jr., "Navigation Instrument Including a Horizon Attachment," U.S. patent #2,395,559
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Naval
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content: Time and Navigation
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Weems Memorial Library
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.59061-N
label: catalog number
content: 59061-N
label: accession number
content: 242229
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 13 in x 9 in; 11.43 cm x 33.02 cm x 22.86 cm