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used for in measuring the speed of a boat back in the 1500' I know the maritime knot which speed is based over water due to the earths curve or the nautical mile which is 6076 ft ..Thrawl me with your acumune
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Lines used to be thrown over the sides of ships to determine speed. Each line was divided into 47 ft. 3 in. sections and were called knots. The line was allowed to run over the ship's side while a 28-second glass was emptying itself. The length of the knot was derived from the proportion that one hour (3600 sec) is to 28 seconds as one mile (6076.115 ft.) is to the length of one knot (47 ft. 3 in.)Dock in Michigan for Pictures, old not used much?
A knot is a nautical mile per hour, or one minute of longitude per hour. (60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in a degree of longitude, measured at the eqiator) It was originally measured by a line with knots in it.Thrawl you with my accumen?
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A KNOT is a nautical mile per hour.
Knots and Nautical miles are good old navy terms.
First I'll explain the nautical mile, then I'll explain how the "knot" came into it:-
The nautical mile was based on the circumference of the earth at the equator.
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Since the earth is 360 degrees of longitude around, and degrees are broken into 60 so-called "minutes", that means there are 360 "minutes" of longitude around the earth.
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This was taken as the basis for the nautical mile; thus, by definition, 1 minute of longitude at the equator is equal to 1 nautical mile. So the earth is ideally, by definition, 21,600 nautical miles (and 21,600 "minutes" of longitude) in circumference at the equator.
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Modern navigators, however, use the "minute of latitude" on our charts to measure distance; this is what you see us doing when we use dividers as we are hovering over the nautical charts (maps). LATITUDE not Longitude.
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For geometrical reasons, we use the minute of latitude on charts to correspond to a nautical mile rather than the minute of longitude. Minutes of longitude shrink as they move away from the equator and towards the poles; minutes of latitude do not shrink. Take a look at a globe with longitude and latitude lines marked on it to understand why.
Ok, here comes the "KNOT" bit:-
The device that sailors used to make their speed measurement was called the "chip log." Chip as in chip of wood, and log as in to record in a log. The chip was a wedge of wood about 18" in size; it was tied to one end of a rope on a large spool. The rope had knots tied into it about every 47'3" (more about how that was calibrated below).
The wooden chip was thrown overboard at the ship's stern (back end). Because of its wedge shape, it would "grab" the water and start pulling out rope as the ship moved forward. One man would hold the spool of rope as it played out; another man would start a sandglass filled with 30 seconds of sand; and a third man would count the knots as they passed over the stern board.
When the 30 seconds of sand expired, the time keeper would call out and the counting of knots would stop.
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The faster the ship was sailing, the more knots and the longer the length of rope was played out. The number of knots in the rope that were counted in 30 seconds, then, was equal to the speed of the ship in nautical miles per hour. A "knot", therefore, is not a nautical mile, it is a nautical mile per hour. Thus 1 knot was equivalent to 1 nautical mile per hour; 5 knots were equivalent to 5 nautical miles per hour; etc.
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Finally, the actual values of 47'3" between knots on the rope and the 30 seconds that were used with the chip log break down like this;-
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The length was based on converting 1 nautical mile per hour to feet per second(fps), and then multiplying fps by 30 seconds (which was a practical time to spend counting knots with a sandglass). The result was the calibrated length in feet at which to tie the knots for a 30-second run of the chip log.
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... Now that we have much more precise technology to measure things, and because we need to establish international standards and conversion factors, and because the earth is not uniformly flat or round anywhere, and because even the precise definition of the second has changed, the official value for how many international feet in an international nautical mile has changed.
Likewise, the measuring time of about "30 seconds" in the sandglass is now calibrated at 28 seconds. Time itself didn't change by 6.7%! But the cumulative effects of new international standard definitions for time, feet, statute miles, and nautical miles and more accurate measurements of the actual size of the earth -- and the fact that we don't use sand to measure time anymore -- have changed the modern calibration of the chip log.
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The terminology has remained with us though!
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