A beam compass is a compass with a beam and sliding sockets or cursors for drawing and dividing circles larger than those made by a regular pair of compasses.[1] The instrument can be as a whole, or made on the spot with individual sockets (called trammel points) and any suitable beam.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Beam-Compasses". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.
A beamcompass is a compass with a beam and sliding sockets or cursors for drawing and dividing circles larger than those made by a regular pair of compasses...
System Beamcompass, a compass with a beam and sliding sockets for drawing and dividing circles larger than those made by a regular pair of compasses Administrative...
surfer's cross, and even longer dead as the biker's cross. I used a beamcompass to make it into a round shape, which looked completely different than...
sophisticated beamcompass to aid marking of the graduations. John Bird and Jeremiah Sisson followed on with these techniques. These beamcompass techniques...
Marking gauge Mortise gauge Depth gauge Mitre level Spirit level and plumb Beamcompass Inside square Ruler (a separate part used to enable many of the above...
to date back to Proclus and perhaps even to the time of Archimedes. Beamcompass Bourke engine John Farey Jr. Hypocycloid Hypotrochoid Tusi couple Useless...
or trammels, metal points with clamping apparatus used to construct a beamcompass Trammel v. United States This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
other has a holder for a technical pen or pencil. Another form, the beamcompass, has the pivot point and pen holder joined by a trammel bar, useful when...
or COMPASS (standing for "Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy") is a 60-metre-long fixed-target experiment at the M2 beam line...
circles often involved drawing large-radius arcs that required use of a beamcompass. Computers now make this task much easier. Further associated with each...
lightweight mirror, suspended by a thread, instead of a compass needle. The deflection of a light beam on the mirror greatly magnified the deflection induced...
aircraft is following the localizer beam. (This second "arrow-indicator" is omitted in modern cockpits, but the main compass is still located below the artificial...
consequences. Curves of very large radius had to be drawn; and, finding a beam-compass of adequate length difficult to manage, I bethought me of an instrumental...
mathematical instruments to measure angles: sectors, a protractor and beamcompass. A collection of balances, levers, tackles demonstrate laws of statics...
matches. The first was between New Zealand and El Salvador for the BBVA Compass Content Series on May 23, 2012. The match ended in a 2–2 draw. The first...
SASS was tested aboard the USS Compass Island (AG-153). The final array system, composed of sixty-one one degree beams with a swathe width of approximately...
organization, Compass, is established with Lacus Clyne as the first president. Soldiers involving Kira Yamato and his friends join the Compass and intervene...
Smiths Military Flight System (MFS), the pilots' components being: two beamcompasses; two director-horizons; and an Mk.10A or Mk.10B autopilot. From 1966...
perpendiculars with a beam of 23.8 m (78 ft 1 in). The vessel has a midsummer draught of 8.706 m (28 ft 6+3⁄4 in). Algoma Compass is powered by two 2,600 kW...
The Samsung Galaxy Beam i8530 (also known as the Galaxy Beam) is a projector-enabled smartphone produced by Samsung. Its main feature is a built-in DLP...
produce unusual results.[citation needed] In some languages, points of the compass bear names etymologically derived from words for sunrise and sunset. The...
band's vision has become fully realized." "Laser Beaming Hearts" – 7:10 "Dream and Guess" – 5:37 "Compass Confusion/ Little Love Gods" – 8:55 "The Science...
Timber framing (German: Fachwerkbauweise) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures...
symbols of ancient China's advanced science and technology. They are the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing. These four inventions had a profound...
A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members such as steel beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter...
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chambers, Ephraim, ed. (1728). "Beam-Compasses". Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.
