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Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass.
Bowl: Black painted aluminium, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Inside of bowl unpainted with four lubber lines on white strips attached to side. Verge ring graduated anti-clockwise to 360 degs. A course indicating pointer is fitted at centre of verge glass. Mounted in black painted aluminium gimbal ring carried in a U shaped bracket and suppert which is attached to a spindle carrying two racks for correcting magnets.
Card: Diameter 3.3" (8.5 cm) Enamelled, white with black markings, graduated to 360 degs and the N,E,S and W points are coloured respectively red, green, blue and yellow. Attached to an unpainted aluminium float at centre.
Needle: Unsighted.
Pivot: Unsighted.
On wooden stand 7.5" x 6.5" x 1.5" (18.5 cm x 16.5 cm x 3.8 cm)
O.A. Height 13.5" (31.5 cm)
Bowl: Black painted aluminium, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Inside of bowl unpainted with four lubber lines on white strips attached to side. Verge ring graduated anti-clockwise to 360 degs. A course indicating pointer is fitted at centre of verge glass. Mounted in black painted aluminium gimbal ring carried in a U shaped bracket and suppert which is attached to a spindle carrying two racks for correcting magnets.
Card: Diameter 3.3" (8.5 cm) Enamelled, white with black markings, graduated to 360 degs and the N,E,S and W points are coloured respectively red, green, blue and yellow. Attached to an unpainted aluminium float at centre.
Needle: Unsighted.
Pivot: Unsighted.
On wooden stand 7.5" x 6.5" x 1.5" (18.5 cm x 16.5 cm x 3.8 cm)
O.A. Height 13.5" (31.5 cm)
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Object Details
| ID: | ACO0556 |
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| Type: | Liquid compass - aircraft |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bamberg, Carl |
| Date made: | 1914-18; 1914-1918 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory |
| Measurements: | Overall: 310 mm x 190 mm x 165 mm |