User:Michael Daly
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I hosted KayakWiki - a wiki devoted to various forms of kayaking.
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Interests include
- History of navigation
- History of astronomy
- History of science
- History of scientific instruments
Pages I've created
- Instrument making
- Dividing engine
- Transversal (instrument making) (in progress - want to add drawing of circ transversals)
- Screw-cutting lathe
- Graduation (instrument)
- Navigation
- Mariner's astrolabe
- Quadrant (instrument)
- Reflecting instrument
- History of longitude based in large part on merging parts of other articles.
- Elton's quadrant
Pages I've contributed to significantly
- Octant (instrument)
- Backstaff
- Stadia (length)
- Chip log
- Alidade
- Theodolite#History - rewrote the history section.
Things to do
- Add two Sisson bios
- Add Orsini bio
- Add Hood bio
- Hooke vs Hadley on first Gregorian telescope (see Talk:John Hadley)