I can't find an image on the internet, of a Circumference-Aperture
Cylinder-Equatorial dial, but I'm going to post a drawing of one.

By the way, I use a broad definition of Equatorial Dial. Instead of only
dials with a dial-face parallel to the equator, I include all dials that
directly measure the Sun's apparent movement parallel to the equator.

Well, any dial with a polar style (including the Polar Dial and all the
Polar-Gnomon Flat Dials) measures the Sun's movement about the polar axis
*reasonably* directly. Maybe all such dials almost qualify as Equatorial
then. But I only call a dial Equatorial if it directly measures the Sun's
apparent movement parallel to the equator, on a uniform circular scale that
measures along a line parallel to the equator.  ...even if the dial-face
isn't parallel to the equator.

Michael Ossipoff
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