A sextant used in the rescue of Titanic survivors will be sold at auction in the U.K. later this month.

A sextant is a nautical instrument for determining a ship's location when at sea. A sexton is a church caretaker for the interior of the church. A verger cares for the church grounds outside the ...

"A particularly striking example is the enormous sextant with a radius of 36 meters that was developed by Ulugh Beg of the Timurid dynasty in the fifteenth century, located in Samarkand in present ...

Object Details Manufacturer Kollsman Instrument Company Summary The Apollo spacecraft contained a separate, inertial guidance and navigation system that enabled its crew to navigate from Earth orbit ...

When Physicist K. G. Jansky of Bell laboratories discovered in 1932 that he could pick up radio waves from objects in space, he founded the exciting science of radio astronomy. As the sailors of ...

In October 2013, for example, Lieutenant Daniel Wiltshire, then a navigation program coordinator at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, told Ocean Navigator, “Even in this high-tech age, the practice ...

Transportation officials are considering changing thousands of addresses on the west side to a newly created directional area.