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AFTER several years of struggle with a rather conservative race of navigators, the wireless engineer and scientist are becoming successful in the application of directive wireless transmission or reception to both aerial and marine navigation; and it can now be said with some confidence that in a very few years time the wireless direction- finder, or some alternative means of navigation by wireless, will be considered as essential as a compass on board every ship of any importance. a considerable number of ships of all nationalities, with those of Great Britain leading the way, are fitted with a direction-finder, an instrument which enables a ship to take bearings wireless transmitting stations and to fix its position with some accuracy at times when all other navigational methods fail.
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SMTTH-ROSE, R. Directional Wireless as an Aid to Navigation. Nature 120, 774–776 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120774a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120774a0