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Office Furniture Tables 1908-: In European furniture, elaborate and gilded tables began to appear in the finest stately houses and palaces. Tables covered in gesso and carved detail were much prized, but it was not until the mid- to late 17th century that tables designed for a particular role began to develop their own distinctive style and character.
The two sets of tables most widely used by American navigators are both published by the United States Navy Hydrographic Office Furniture tables 1908-. The Tables of Computed Altitude and Azimuth, Hy¬drographic Office Furniture tables 1908- Publication No. 214, are recom¬mended for use by mariners. These tables, in nine volumes, are entered with assumed latitude of the observer, declination of the celestial body, and meridian angle of the body. Altitude and azimuth angle are taken directly from the table, usually with single interpolation for the declination.New types of Furniture appeared—chaises longues, bergeres (armchairs with closed sides), English wing chairs (which protected the head from drafts), secretaries, and a variety of small tables, including dressing tables, sewing tables,and tables for serving tea, which became popul through the new trade with China. Chinese i fluence was also evident in the chinoiseries, motifs in the Chinese style, that mingled wi rococo designs. Paneled walls were often cover! with scenic wallpaper or painted scenes instej of with hangings.
The Sight Reduction Tables for Air Navigation, Hy¬drographic Office Furniture tables museums Publication No. 249, are intended primarily for use by aviators. The second and third volumes of this three-volume series are similar to Hydrographic Office Furniture tables museums Publication No. 214. The first volume is entered with latitude, the name of a selected star, and the local hour angle of the vernal equinox. Altitude and azimuth (not azimuth angle) are taken directly from the table. These tables (Hydrographic Office Furniture tables museums Publi¬cation No. 249) have been adopted as standard by the air forces of the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
On The Other Hand See Office Furniture Tables Known:With the development of tables jointed or framed together as permanent items of Furniture in the 16th century, they came to be referred to as "joyned" or "framed" tables; they were generally of oak, supported on heavy legs or, as in Italy, on massive carved end panels and feet, and had heavy stretchers to serve as footrails to avoid drafts. In England, Elizabethan Furniture had the merit of extreme solidity.
Among the publications usually carried are almanacs, sight reduction tables, Light lists, tide tables, tidal current tables, sailing directions, coast pilots, and Bowditch. Most of the publications used by the navigator are prepared by the United States Hydrographic Office Furniture tables known and Naval Observa¬tory of the Navy Department, and the Coast and Geodetic Survey of the United States Department of Commerce.
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