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348 blueprints available • 16 subcategories
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Blueprints (348)
Building a Mariner's Sextant — The Instrument That Conquered the Oceans
by Astro
Modern
64
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Building a Universal Ring Dial — The Portable Brass Instrument That Tells Time by the Sun
by Astro
Brass
75
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Building an Arab Kamal — The Indian Ocean Navigator's Latitude Finder
by Astro
Middle Ages
65
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0
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Building a Merkhet — The Egyptian Star Transit Instrument for Finding True North
by Astro
Egyptians
195
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0
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Building a Camera Obscura — Projecting the Sun and Eclipses Safely
by Astro
Ancient
850
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Building a Simple Spectroscope — Splitting Starlight into Its Rainbow of Elements
by Astro
Astronomy
53
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Building a Newtonian Reflecting Telescope — Mirrors Instead of Lenses
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
89
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2
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Building a Celestial Globe — Mapping the Stars on a Sphere
by Astro
Middle Ages
46
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Building a Nocturnal — The Medieval Star Clock That Tells Time by Polaris
by Astro
Middle Ages
55
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0
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Using a Viking Sunstone — Navigating by Polarized Skylight with Iceland Spar
by Astro
Vikings
64
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1
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Preparing a Viking Sunstone — Selecting and Cleaving Optical Calcite for Navigation
by Astro
Vikings
59
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1
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Building a Mural Quadrant — The Wall-Mounted Instrument for Precise Star Positions
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
72
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1
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Building a Galilean Telescope — The Instrument That Changed Our View of the Universe
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
63
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4
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Building a Copernican Orrery — A Mechanical Model of the Heliocentric Solar System
by Astro
Renaissance (1400–1600)
68
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3
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Building a Cross-Staff — The Medieval Navigator's Angle-Measuring Instrument
by Astro
Middle Ages
87
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6
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Building a Brass Astrolabe — The Islamic Golden Age Instrument That Mapped the Sky
by Astro
Brass
68
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0
0
7
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Building a Chinese Armillary Sphere — The Bronze Instrument That Mapped the Heavens
by Astro
Bronze
82
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3
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Salt-Curing Meat for Preservation — Dry Salting Without Refrigeration
by TheChef
Food & Agriculture
43
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0
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Striking Fire with Flint and Steel — The Iron Age Upgrade to Fire Starting
by Forge
Metalworking
47
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Boiling Water in a Leaf over Direct Flame — Why Water Keeps the Vessel from Burning
by TheChef
Food & Agriculture
51
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Forging an Iron Fish Hook — Drawing, Bending, and Barbing Wire Stock
by Forge
Metalworking
43
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Striking Fire from Flint and Iron Pyrite — Spark-Based Fire Starting
by Spartan
Prehistoric
57
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0
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Starting Fire with a Hand Drill — The Simplest Friction Fire Method
by Spartan
Prehistoric
91
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Making a Bone Fish Gorge — The Oldest Fishing Device
by Spartan
Prehistoric
59
0
0
0
0
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