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Show I HI TO jpiffi CAPT, QAD3EN PERFECTS DEVICE TO CORRECT FALSE HORIZON. Relatively at Valuable as Sextant-All Sextant-All Reward Inventor 8eeka It to Know He Has Made Ocean Travel Safer. ". Vnshtngton. Thoro has boon presented pre-sented to (ho bureau of navigation of tho United States navy an Ingenious device to old In taking observations to dotcrmlno a ship's position, and which, It adopted, will not yield, and Is not expected to yield a dollar of profit to tho Inventor, Capt, H. A. Gad. eon, a retired mariner, now enjoying tbo comforts of life ashoro at No. C Bladen road, London. Capt Qadsen's Invention U as Important Im-portant relatively as tlio sextant Itself. Tho Japanese navy used It In tho war with Russia, and to Its employment tho commandors of eight ships as-i as-i crlbcd In a largo measure their ability f to RUrprlso tho enemy. Divested of Its technical nomenclature, nomencla-ture, tho Invention, which Is called tho "spanner horizon," Is Intended to correct cor-rect a falso horizon, which tho navigator navi-gator dreads almost as much ns he docs tho unchartod sunken rock, for ho may bo carried many miles out of his course, and not Infrequently to a dangorous ambush, In tho pathless lano ho Is following, Uvcr Blnco tho tlmo when tho hardy Norsemen ventured out of sight of land, guided only by a rudo compass, dependence has been placed upon tho sea horizon for thoso observations of tho celestial bodies which enabled tho navigator to fix his position upon and shapo his courso nc;iis tho vast ex-panso ex-panso of tho oceans. When tho horizon hori-zon Is obscurCd tho observations cannot can-not be tnkon, sincl reliance. uncom-fortablo uncom-fortablo and uncertain has to bo placed on dead reckoning, tho hear KjH Capt. Qadsen and His Instrument EBH Ing of the lead lino, and the cries of HH tho lookout This Is tho caso oven HHR' when tho sun or stars are shining XT. brightly nnd only tho horizon Is ob- R The great danger, and which has HH lured many a good ship to her dostruo- 'tlpn, is the counterfeit horizon, which KS appears so clear and well doftnod that 'It will docelvo oxperlenced navigators HH men who have been deceived beforo IflU by tbo samo falBo aosuranco that they Kn "vero looking upon tho roal horizon. JHUB Socuro In tho bollcf that his "sights HH: are good," which Is tho nautical way HH f saying that the safety signals are HW set, tbo mariner stands boldly on his BBB, courso only to find that ho la sovoral BffVg miles out of his reckoning, and has KB made a bad landfall. Tho falso horl-BRH horl-BRH ton at sea is as cruoj a dccoptlon by H Dunio Naturo as tho mlrago on land VB' which presents to tho thirsty traveler Hlt i limpid etroam almost within reach HUB (of his hand. HBS The spanner horizon la so called bc-causa bc-causa It exactly spans tho periphery 01 tbo sun's Imago reflected on tho horizon glass of a sextant when day Mvn obseiTatlons are taken. It carries a SBffl 4 . central wtro for night work, on which M0 a star, a light ashoro or afloat or other FjJN small object may bo brought in lino. mW 0n tbo darkest nights tho altitudes F (HW'' ' the stars may bo taken with tho i B;panncr. In tho daytime, when tho IV ihorlzon Is obscured and tho limbs of M j ho Bun nrc brought between the logs j f of tho Instrument, tho altltudo of tho ia;yB sun's center Is obtained and tho truo 1 horizon Is established. k kL 'apt' aad,on Invented tho lnstru-W lnstru-W uk After his rotJromcnt from an ac-H ac-H Wjitlve seafaring llfo. Its valuo no an IK rw' aid to navigation was recognized by IRuiB EnBllBn mariners and It was suggest-. suggest-. ?d 'bat a company bo formed for tho IHajk manufacture or the auxiliary to tbo lpr?jOj$ HXtant but Caut- G&dscn, who Is mid-MX, mid-MX, TRdlo-agcd and "sot" In his Ideas, would IjP Hk-")t consider tho proposition. Tho eat-IT eat-IT JH faction that ho will dorlvo, and all IP. U'JR be asks for, Is tho approval of tho nav-tSyfflfteators nav-tSyfflfteators who find his Invention to bo pHW practical and helpful. Ho would rather IpPlMjslnow that a hundred ships had laid a Ik1. aKStruo courso and avoided danger with W) rB n'cl ' nls BPannor horizon than to 1$ Vl rco,vc hl""lrcd thousand guineas. |