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Flinders2|ˈflɪndəz|
The name of Captain Matthew Flinders (1774–1814), English navigator and explorer, used attrib. in Flinders bar(s), a soft iron bar or bundle of rods, placed vertically near a ship's compass to correct deviation due to magnetic induction and to lessen the heeling-error.
1881W. Thomson in Jrnl. R. United Serv. Inst. XXIV. 408 The Flinders bar essentially corrects..the constituent of the heeling error, which has its maximum values on the east and west courses. 1895F. J. Evans Elem. Man. Deviations Compass in Iron Ships (ed. 9) xi. 119 Sir W. Thomson in his patent compass has adopted a malleable iron bar..which he has called a ‘Flinders' bar’ after its accomplished inventor. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 181/2 A method of correcting deviation by means of a bar of vertical iron so placed as to correct the deviation nearly in all latitudes. This bar, now known as a ‘Flinders bar’, is still in general use. 1924R. Clements Gipsy of Horn (1925) 217 The binnacle was useless..for the Flinders-bars had gone with the sky-light. 1959Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 822/1 A ‘flinders’ bar, a soft iron bar mounted vertically on the binnacle, will..correct that part of the deviation that is due to the induced vertical fields. |