chip log造句

• A sailor ran the chip log and another sailor the sandglass.
• In 1577, a more advanced technique was mentioned : the chip log.
• In 1829, Fr閙inville was appointed to evaluate a chip log invented by Pierre Bouguer, which he deemed unsuitable.
• The term originally referred to a book for recording readings from the chip log, used to determine the distance a ship traveled within a certain amount of time.
• From the 16th century a smaller " glass " was used along with the chip log, to measure the speed ( in knots ) of the vessel over the water.
• That rumble will increase in volume as the plane passes by, and decrease in volume, the sound dragging along far behind, not unlike an aural " chip log ".
• He realized that Elliot, who was last known to be taking a reading of the ship's speed using a Chip log, may have been killed before he pulled in the log and its line floating behind the ship.
• Distance was measured by dead reckoning, ( " i . e . ", distance = speed & times; time ), where time was measured by a half-hour-glass, and speed readings were taken with by some form of a chip log ( the archaic method, used in the 14th and 15th centuries, involved heaving a piece of wood or flotsam overboard; the crew engaged in a rhythmic chant to mark the time it took for the chip to float past the length of the ship ).