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A pilot and observer with a Bigsworth chart board posing for a picture in a Bristol Blenheim, France, 1939-1940. C863

The Bigsworth chart board (The Bigsworth Protractor, Parellels and Chart Board) was a device, developed circa 1918, to aid in the use of charts for the onboard navigation of planes. It consisted of a wooden board upon which a chart was placed.[1] Over the chart was a pivoted double parallel linking arm that could be adjusted up and down the side of the board and at the arm's end was a protractor.[2] Its inventor was Arthur Wellesley Bigsworth (whose name inspired Captain W. E. Johns to name his hero "Biggles").[3][4][5] The square board was available in two sizes (14 inches or 17 inches)... which being most suitable depending on the space available. The United States, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Report (1922) describes the Bigsworth board as "one of the most convenient avaialble outfits ... for plotting and determining courses, finding position, etc."[6]

Jefford (2014) notes that the board "was produced in substantial quantities and it remained in service well into WWII when it was still providing a portable and self-contained navigation station in aeroplanes (like the remaining open-cockpit biplanes, and even Blenheim Mk Is) in which adequate facilities for the observer were still lacking." (p.373)[7]

Woolrych (1995) when looking at the origins of fighter control in the RN traces its origins to Lieutenant Commander Charles Coke, Air Signals Officer who, during the Norwegian Campaign, on the Ark Royal (a ship not fitted with radar, and relying on reports of Luftwaffe air activity from the accompanying cruisers with their Type 79 air warning radar), without suitable facilities used a corner of the carrier’s Bridge Wireless Office, and with a telegraphist next to him telling him the incoming reports from the cruisers made the plots on a ‘Bigsworth Board’.[8]

Moffat, the pilot of the Swordfish that most likely launched the torpedo that damaged the Bismarck such that it was later sunk notes in his book recounting his time in FAA the importance of the Bigsworth for allowing them to find their way back to their carrier. [9]

Bigsworth is listed in Gunston's (2009) Dictionary as an obsolete integrated chartboard, transparent overlay, parallel rules and Douglas protractor.[10]

The Board gets a mention in the Fleet Air Arm's Song Books parody of Kipling's If:

If you can keep control of your dividers
And Bigsworth board and Gosport tube and pad;
Or listen to the wireless and pilot
Talking in unison — and not go mad.[11]

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  1. ^ Stewart, Charles John (1930). Aircraft Instruments. Wiley. p. 203.
  2. ^ Ayliffe, Alec (2001). "The Development of Airborne Dead Reckoning. Part I: Before 1940 – Finding The Wind". The Journal of Navigation. 54 (2): 223–233. doi:10.1017/S0373463301001199.
  3. ^ https://www.oldnautibits.com/stock_php/infopage.php?catalogue=AIT&stocknumber=6603&frompage=share
  4. ^ Aeronautics Vol XVII No 298, p. 527.
  5. ^ PRO AIR 10/316/293; Instructions for the use of Bigsworth Protractor Parallels and Chart Board.
  6. ^ United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1922) Aerial Navigation and Navigating Instruments, Report, Volume 131, pp. 22-23, U.S. Government Printing Office.
  7. ^ Jefford, Wg Cdr C.G., (2014) Observers and Navigators: And Other Non-Pilot Aircrew in the RFC, RNAS and RAF, Grub Street Publishing.
  8. ^ Woolrych, R. S. "Fighter-Direction Matériel and Technique, 1939–45." The Applications of Radar and other Electronic Systems in the Royal Navy in World War 2. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1995. 173-185.
  9. ^ Moffat, John, and Mike Rossiter. (2010). I sank the Bismarck. Oxford: Isis.
  10. ^ Gunston, Bill. (2009). The Cambridge aerospace dictionary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  11. ^ https://www.horntip.com/html/books_&_MSS/1970s/1979ca_the_fleet_air_arm_songbook_(PB)/1979ca_the_fleet_air_arm_song_book.htm

Bibliography edit

  • Ayliffe, Alec. "The development of airborne dead reckoning. part I: Before 1940-finding the wind." The Journal of Navigation 54, no. 2 (2001): 223.
  • Hunt, Franklin L. "Aeronautic Instruments." JOSA 6, no. 7 (1922): 744-811.
  • Kingsley, F.A. (2016) The Applications of Radar and Other Electronic Systems in the Royal Navy in World War 2, Springer, 27 Jul
  • Wimperis, H. E. (1920). A primer of Air Navigation
  • Woolrych, R. S. "Fighter-Direction Matériel and Technique, 1939–45." The Applications of Radar and other Electronic Systems in the Royal Navy in World War 2. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1995. 173-185.

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Tim Robinson is an American researcher in psychology whose work included trying to find out about physiological functions through using animal models. He looked into the effect of electrical stimulation on seizures and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A 1961 graduate of Forest Lake Area High School, he is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Gustavus Adolphus College.[1][2] He was a 1965 graduate of Gustavus and has served on the school’s faculty since 1969. From 1999 until 2008, Professor Robinson served as Director of the Nobel Conference, the first annual conference in the U.S. to be officially sanctioned by the Nobel Foundation of Stockholm, Sweden.[citation needed] He also edited the book on the history of the conference "Future of Science: 1975 Nobel Conference".[3][4]

Selected publications edit

  • Robinson, T.C.L. (Ed.), (1977) Proceedings of the XI (1975) Nobel Conference on the Future of Science, Gustavus Adolphus College, Wiley, New York (Note: in subsequent printings of this volume, Sir John Eccles was added as the primary editor: Eccles, J. C., (1977). The Future of Science: 1975 Nobel Conference (Vol. 11). John Wiley & Sons.)[5][6]
  • Roberts, W. W., & Robinson, T. C. (1969). Relaxation and sleep induced by warming of preoptic region and anterior hypothalamus in cats. Experimental neurology, 25(2), 282-294.
  • Roberts, W. W., Bergquist, E. H., & Robinson, T. C. (1969). Thermoregulatory grooming and sleep-like relaxation induced by local warming of preoptic area and anterior hypothalamus in opossum. Journal of comparative and physiological psychology, 67(2p1), 182.
  • Robinson, Timothy Carl Lidfors (1972) Effect of electrical stimulation of vagus nerve afferents on food motivated behavior of cats, Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1971.

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This is a list of people on the postage stamps of Iceland including the years when they appeared on a stamp.

Danish dependency( –1918) edit

Kingdom of Iceland (1918–1944) edit

Iceland a republic (1944–) edit

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Postage stamps and postal history of Iceland

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  • Sources: I can't find sources for a particularly Icelandic list of portraits - but rather some sources on portaiture on stamps in general or other particulars:
    • Reid, D. M. (1984). The symbolism of postage stamps: a source for the historian. Journal of Contemporary History, 19(2), 223-249.
    • Schwarzenbach, A. (1997). Portraits of the Nation: stamps, coins and banknotes in Belgium and Switzerland, 1880-1945 (Doctoral dissertation).
    • Shearer, A. E. (1956). Famous electrical pioneers on stamps. Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2(19), 414-415.
    • Fischel, H. A. (1961). The philatelic portrait of the modern Jew. Jewish Social Studies, 187-208.
    • Covington, K., Brunn, S.D. Celebrating a Nation’s heritage on music stamps: Constructing an international community. GeoJournal 65, 125–135 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-0015-z
  1. ^ "Professor Tim Robinson: Changing Gustie lives since 1969". October 2011.
  2. ^ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Physiology-Behavior-Neil-R-Carlson/dp/0205381758
  3. ^ https://www.amazon.com/Future-Science-1975-Nobel-Conference/dp/0471015245/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321839436&sr=8-1
  4. ^ https://gustavus.edu/psychology/Epilogue/emil-November-99.html Emil's Epilogue Nov 1999 - Gustavus
  5. ^ Nichols, Rodney W. (1977) The Visible Scientists (R. Goodell) and The Future of Science (T. C. L. Robinson), Physics Today 30, 11, 65 (1977); doi: 10.1063/1.3037794 View online: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3037794
  6. ^ https://news.blog.gustavus.edu/2008/10/08/robinson-steps-down-as-director-of-the-nobel-conference/
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