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Liquid compass - aircraft
Liquid compass
Bowl: Black painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Base fitted with a heavy metal cover. Inside of bowl silvered with four lubber lines enamelled on white strips attached to side of bowl. The lubber lines are continued onto the raised verge ring. Mounted in brass gimbal ring 12.0" (30.5 cm) diameter, in anti-vibration spring suspension system of two brackets containing three springs each.
Card: Diameter 7.9" (20.0 cm) Enamelled metal rim, white with black markings, graduated to 360 degrees with a second set of graduations 180 degrees out of phase and to 1/4 points. Attached to a silvered float at centre.
Needle: Unsighted.
Pivot: Unsighted
On wooden stand 15.2" x 12.0" x 0.8" (38.5 cm x 30.5 cm x 2.0 cm)
O.A. Height 10.6" (27.0 cm)
Bowl: Black painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Base fitted with a heavy metal cover. Inside of bowl silvered with four lubber lines enamelled on white strips attached to side of bowl. The lubber lines are continued onto the raised verge ring. Mounted in brass gimbal ring 12.0" (30.5 cm) diameter, in anti-vibration spring suspension system of two brackets containing three springs each.
Card: Diameter 7.9" (20.0 cm) Enamelled metal rim, white with black markings, graduated to 360 degrees with a second set of graduations 180 degrees out of phase and to 1/4 points. Attached to a silvered float at centre.
Needle: Unsighted.
Pivot: Unsighted
On wooden stand 15.2" x 12.0" x 0.8" (38.5 cm x 30.5 cm x 2.0 cm)
O.A. Height 10.6" (27.0 cm)
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Object Details
| ID: | ACO0558 |
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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: 275 mm x 385 mm x 305 mm |