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Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass
Bowl: Black painted white metal, fillper plug on side, no expansion chamber is fitted. Base of bowl fitted with plunger and clamp for adjusting error mounted above card. Mounted in a brass gimbal ring hich is attached at the two pivot points to metal brackets. Inside of bowl unsighted lubber line extends downwrads from verge glass, the verge ring is also engraved with a lubber line.
Card: Yellow mica (?) card with black markings graduated to 360 degrees. Card fitted with a moveable arrow which is operated by the plunger working through the base of the bowl.
Needle: Unsighted
Pivot: Unsighted and of an unknown type.
On ACO stand. Diameter 5.25" (13.3cm) O.A. Height 6.0" (15.2cm)
Bowl: Black painted white metal, fillper plug on side, no expansion chamber is fitted. Base of bowl fitted with plunger and clamp for adjusting error mounted above card. Mounted in a brass gimbal ring hich is attached at the two pivot points to metal brackets. Inside of bowl unsighted lubber line extends downwrads from verge glass, the verge ring is also engraved with a lubber line.
Card: Yellow mica (?) card with black markings graduated to 360 degrees. Card fitted with a moveable arrow which is operated by the plunger working through the base of the bowl.
Needle: Unsighted
Pivot: Unsighted and of an unknown type.
On ACO stand. Diameter 5.25" (13.3cm) O.A. Height 6.0" (15.2cm)
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Object Details
| ID: | ACO0220 |
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| Type: | Liquid compass - aircraft |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Clift, E. H.; Henry Hughes & Son Limited |
| Date made: | 1912-1913 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory |
| Measurements: | Overall: 140 mm; Diameter: 130 mm |